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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy Dragon Slays love Alive
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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I will do everything I can to ensure that Malagasy are lifted out of poverty

Everything Poverty Lifted Malagasy
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What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar’s people, and we are going to succeed.

Victory Candidate Madagascar Succeed
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I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Accept I cannot Malagasy Civil war
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In order to tackle malnutrition, it is essential to ensure people’s access to adequate food, appropriate health services, clean water and sanitation.

Malnutrition Adequate food Health Clean water
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War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

War Jungle Bush-clearing Thicker
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Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition Never Comes to an end
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Inability Power Voices Change
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The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

Moment Protected Individual Society
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The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways - through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Drama Climax Two ways Terrorism
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Artist Darkness Duty Hearts
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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Accomplished Art Enthusiasm Nothing
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Determined Ensemble Every First
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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Beautiful Beautiful Eyes Because Become
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Am Around Bubbles Fresh
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Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Aims Aspire Body Ever
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

According Better Easier Impression
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I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

Although Am Confidence Enough
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always Blend Burn Clear
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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Course Crash Dancer Just
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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Accept Bible Either Good
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We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Between Got Hereafter In-Between
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Leader Men Turn Back
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Been difficult Men Realize Life
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Men Know themselves Longer fools Wisdom
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Promise land Always lies Wilderness
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Thinking Lower grades Comparable Paper money
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Romantic Embrace Music Prayer
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There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

Dangerous Intoxicating Victory Nothing
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Certain Need Novels Road
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

Any Before Discard Good
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Became Deeply First Rhythm
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Admired Also Could He
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Chords Cruel English Five
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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

Again Animate Discouraged Elaborate
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Well organized Foundations Life Risk
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Applied Back Body End
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Always Man Objective Reach
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I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Ancestors Built Decent Deep
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Appreciate Beatles Could Devotion
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Vague Feeling Musicians Fallen angel
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As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

About Am Approach End
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The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

By product More valuable
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I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

End Had Never Retirement
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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Sublime faith Human imbecility Cherish
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One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.

Citizen Consider Feel Know
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I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.

Always Been Forever Intend
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

The mathematician Reached Highest rung Human thought
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A mind cannot be independent of culture.
Cannot Culture Independent Mind
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