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Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms.

Solitude Minds Think Alone
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Past Attract Future Death
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Memory Perfect World Life
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Only Good thing Life Love
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A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Art Music Poetic Dream
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Words Deceive Face Soul
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Everything False Possible Doubtful
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Everything Dying Live Fact
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One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

One Weeps Illusions Death
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The only certainty is death.

Only Certainty Death
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Coveted Everything Pleasure Nothing
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriostism Religion Wars Hatched
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness

Great minds Healthy Geniuses Inferior
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You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Lived Died Life Fought
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We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.

Love Mother Realize Ultimate
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Government Right Death People
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Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.

Life Love Woman Happiness
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised

Love Heart Precious Despised
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Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Envy Soul Pleasures Life
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Lives Ecounter Life Worth
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If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

Time Nothing Experience Moment
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both

Unhappy Love Marriage People
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Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Life Feel Happy Death
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Writing is a delicious agony.

Writing Delicious Agony
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Reading Important Lines Everything
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Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry Life Distilled
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

She Learning Love Moments
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Books Flame Flower Cloud
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art Hurts Easier Home
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words

Life Language Achieve Words
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I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

I Create Note Desecration
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Love Touch Things Yourself
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Minority People Reference Less
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.

Exhaust Moment Gold Identical
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The End of the Song. Live in the along.
Live Battles Won Song
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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond

We Harvest Business Bond
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I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

Like Idea Race Existence
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done

Writing Poem Think World
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Desire Oblige Yourself Lead
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Good health Duty Progress World
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Interested Particular Truth
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Brave Involved Fearful Unresolved
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

Life Aromatic Scent Somehow
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.

People Need Help Want
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Goodness Begins Fact Life
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world

Art Refining Materials World
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sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Deal Devisly Men Shore
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Believe Human Doubt Destroy
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A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.

Poem Thinking Person's Serve
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Truth Palatable Preference
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