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335 Translator Quotes

What happens in the heart simply happens.
Happens Heart Simply What
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Creation Each Feather Foot
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Back Being Communion Connection
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

Administration Bad Bush Bush Administration
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Ever First Loved Sight
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Beauty Best Estate Goodness
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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Bargaining Buy Improves Love
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Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
Above Friend Life Love
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Alike Burial Earth Every
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

Bliss Crown Earthly Felicity
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Art Beauty Stars Fairer
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Accursed be he that first invented war.

First Invented War Accursed
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Childish Count Hold Ignorance
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

Place Hath Hell Limits
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Fields Hills Live Love
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Cure Earth You
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Again Better Ever Fail
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I can't go on. I'll go on

Go
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Been Else Matters Nothing
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Another Begins Constant Each
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Birth was the death of him.

Birth Death Him
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Love Matter Memory More
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Visible Words Pages Blank
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
Believe Confess Time
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Sunrise Death Even Great
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Style Prose Fancy Count
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Rocks Cradle Light Sense
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Surface Fully Home Like
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

African Dreams Genius Snow
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life Delight Enjoy Order
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Wave Explain Sea Whole
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

More Perilous Revelation Revolution
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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Literature Only School Talent
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Passions Man Butterflies Known
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vast Obscure Series Existence
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Associated Once Past Smell
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Write Speak Author Child
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Work Art Society Only
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Safe Magic Trash Power
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Flesh Love Actual Letter
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Activity Bath Communal Group
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Evolution Nonsense Sense
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

World Fiction Fit Likely
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Blush Contain First Matter
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Mind Exists State Being
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