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Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours

Become history Your hand Found mine Life rushed
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

The future Still hanging The sea A boat
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.

Actor Athlete Heart
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
Conceive Work Art Existence
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

Abandon Myself Dreams Search
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Life consists of burning up questions.

Life Consists Burning Questions
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Work Confines Realm Unique
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

True Language Incomprehensible Chatter
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Without Sarcasm Sink Chaos
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written Poetry Reading Destroyed
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Patient Flatterer Ass Sir
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God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

God Makes All things Good
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Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...

Time Extremes Reduces Mediums
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Money Speaks Sense Language
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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Love Ceases Pleasure Secreat
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He knew almost as much as if he had read much.

He Knew Much Read
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Moments Happy Lover's Worth
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Here Proof Wit Defence
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Tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress.

Evident Plain Simple Nature
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Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Where No Novelty There
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Turned silence Into words Was unutterable Whirling world
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Thousand dreams Within me Softly burn
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Have wept Too much Heartbreaking Every moon
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By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

By being Too sensitive I have Wasted
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Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.

Your memory Your sense The nourishment Creative impulse
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Life The farce All forced To endure
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

The problem The soul A monster
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

I found Could extinguish Human hope My soul
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea

Eternity The sun Mixed with The sea
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Morality The weakness The mind
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

My wisdom Spurned As chaos The amazement
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

Great glasshouses Streaming Condensation Children
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Stronger Than alcohol Vaster Poetry
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Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

My memory Serve me My life Every heart
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True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

True life Elsewhere The world
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The world progresses! Why shouldn’t it turn as well?

World progresses Turn As well
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What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Want Possess Religion Me
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Act Comfort Luxury Life
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Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Feelings Analyze Worse Smell
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There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Freedoms False Man Free
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Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.
Do Noble things Dream Day
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What’s the use of doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Use Doing Kindness Day
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Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Do Today Duty Temptation
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Thank God Something Do
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Men Succeed Life Cheerful
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Great True Friends Mean
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except Living man Wonderful Book
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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Pain Evil Conuers Us
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Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Friendship Broken Rarely Same way
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...People's souls make their bodies, just as a snail makes its shell.

People's Souls Bodies Makes
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