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1667 Playwright Quotes

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

I Burning Myself Always
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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Art Marriage Conscious
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It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

Excruciating Unbeliever Spirit Religious
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I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Willing Tolerated Love Liberty
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Greatest Literature Dictionary Order
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

True Poet Scent Roses
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art Beautiful Fashion Time
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I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality

Mythology History Truth Reality
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.

Uniform Hide Heavy heart Show
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Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
Statues Great men Stones Lifetime
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Music Something Feelings Motivated
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A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

Self realizations Learn Unaware Instincts
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

True realism Revealing Habit Prevents
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I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

Fear Death People Love
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Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Yourself Life Death Work
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Poetry Hope Achieve Life
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Youth Assert Conviction Nothing
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Worst Tragedy Poet Admired
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He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

He Affected Insult Infected
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Emotion Work Art Value
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Day Birth Death Walk
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The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.

Map Life Road Choice
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

We Shelter Angel Guardians
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all

Anyone Experienced Ecstasy Betrayal
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We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning

We Ink Page Meaning
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What Need Hatred Ideas
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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Write Resort Betrayed Someone
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beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Beauty Ugliness Developing Purest
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Worse Dreams Youth Young
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Achieve Harmony Height Elegance
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
Man Dream Order Darkness
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Power End Shadow Image
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Object Revolution Liberation Ideology
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Crimes People History Man
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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Time Reasoning Past Fight
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Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life Begins Other side Despair
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life Moment Lose Eternal
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Lost Battle Thinks
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man Free World Responsible
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We Act Passion Feel
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We do not judge the people we love.

We Judge People Love
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words Treacherous Powerful Think
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Literature Worth Hour Trouble
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man Responsible Nature Choices
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics Science Demonstrate Wrong
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Commitment Act Word
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Day Left Dawn Dusk
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Afraid Son Honest Citizen
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Shun Bait Struggle Snare
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Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Dreams Fancy Reason Wakes
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