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You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

Always take Religion Its best Its worst
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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

See Marvellous Shapes Random
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The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

The body Never More alive Dead
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

Every person Every nation Own particular keynote Brings
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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilized world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

The duty The followers Islam To spread
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There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith

More misunderstanding Islam Other religions The world
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We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

Learn much Our sleep The knowledge Gained slowly
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
Durable things Are built Violent passion Nature grows
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

The heat Coal differs Do memory Perceptions
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What Joy Dance Sing
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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavor so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind

True basis Morality Utility The adaptation
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Very difficult Live Among people You love
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing Matter Life Death
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Hopes Future Consign Hypothesis
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language Power Life Instrument
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

She thought A clean Simple life Have led
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She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.

She collected Polished resentments Some kind Hobby
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

Apparently You grow To love Handed
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Youth Time Getting Age
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Sometimes he fantasied that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

Sometimes Fantasied The end His life
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The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.

The trouble With dying Is you How everything
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Fire Force Abated Anger
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Love Be concealed Small cough Small love
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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Watch out Knows nothing Leaves you Hanging
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Your ear Down close Your soul Listen hard
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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Stuffing Your mouth Your promises Watching you
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

M alone Own mind No map No road
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The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

World Longer Love Hope
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

My books Anoint me Few friends Reach
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

No one A body Cannot escape To fly
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We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

We Strangers Pilgrims Plainly declare
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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

All day I've built Lifetime Sun sinks
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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

Depression Boring Do better Some soup
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Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

Sin Shame Together Freed
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Beautiful feeling After writing A poem Whole better
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

Poetry My life Postmark My hands
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You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.

You Story Inside Waiting
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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Am crazy I know Kind Sanity
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And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

I tried Give you Something else Outside myself
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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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I was good and bad, but never wicked.

I Good Bad But never
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We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

We State Living Death
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Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

Pawn Somebody's Game Attitude
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Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Sometimes Fear Warning Someone
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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Why Shame Self loathing Cruelty
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Loved Words Sing Speak
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Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
Pride Parent Destruction Mind
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And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.
You Know Change Time
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