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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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All extremes are dangerous.

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You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

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loveliness is infernally sad.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

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The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

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I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

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