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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

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What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

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The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

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But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

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But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

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I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

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An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

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