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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Art Funnel Spirit Poured
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Are carnal Love Death Terror
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Harmful truth Better than Useful lie
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Interest Disease Death Expression
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting

Fear Called meticulous Inclining Exhaustive
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Only love Not reason Kind thoughts
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

What good Politics be Give everyone Opportunity
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions Survive No chance Fight
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Life Goodness Irrespective Course
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Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Death Dignifies Our sufferings Eyes
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Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Myth Foundation Life Timeless pattern
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Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge

Man loves Honors Not able Judge him
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Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.

Whoever Unable to Stand up His blood
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How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?

Free myself Sexuality Eat nothing Rice
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To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Find peace Faultless Desire Seeks excellence
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Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.

Passion Live Life's sake Experience
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A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries

Human being Lives Personal life Individual
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Goodness Love Death No sovereignty
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty, unfamiliar and perilous.
Solitude Gives birth Original Beauty
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Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
Thought comes Clearly One walks
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Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.

Any lover Desired To please Suffered agonies
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Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

Deep The well Past Call it
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He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.

Relationship Man Determined by The woman
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I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

Old autumn Misty morn Stand shadow less Silence
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I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Remember The house Was born Little window
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
To choose Mine Love Every day
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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping

The failure In life Pulling One's horse
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The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

The lily White Like Saint
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My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.

My brain Sight Write Lark instead
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With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Fingers weary Worn Eyelids heavy Woman sat
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A moment's thinking is an hour in words

Moment's thinking An hour In words
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

Attempt Advise Conceited people Whistling
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There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

Silence No sound May be Cold grave
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

Some dreams Unnatural Contradictions Most romantic
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O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

Men Sisters Mothers Wives
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No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief

No blessed Leisure For love Only time
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I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.
Resolved The sun Day lasted Look on
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How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend

How bless Heart A friend Sympathizing ear
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I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day

Love Can say My vision Night
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Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering,
Peace Rest Have come Long toil
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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

Very hope Belied Fear Hopes
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The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.

Hardest thing Open Closed mind
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Hatred, revenge, bitterness: these are negative emotions. The person harboring those emotions suffers more
Hatred Revenge Bitterness Negative emotions
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Mandela was a complex character,both the aristocrat, and royalty, and the peasant; the intellectual and the ordinary person; he was a combination of so many different characteristics, you cannot just put him into one box and say ‘this is him’.

Mandela Complex Aristocrat Royalty
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We don’t hold it against people who broke down under torture. I don’t know what I would have done under torture. I can never say. As brave as I can talk today, I can’t guarantee it.

Torture Broke down Never say Brave
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Like good soldiers we are not promising anything miraculous or spectacular. But what we do promise every law-abiding citizen is freedom from fear and all forms of oppression

Good Soldiers Miraculous Spectacular
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Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent

Our enemies Profiteers The swindlers Low places
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In this country, when you speak out, all the arrows will be fashioned to attack you. But I conquered fear at age 17, I can’t be intimidated.

This country Speak out Arrows Be fashioned
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Nigeria is greater than anybody and nobody should do anything to threaten our unity.

Greater than Anybody Nobody To threaten
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Lamenting and wallowing in self-pity won’t change things, things change when you do things differently, not when you perfect how to cry.

Lamenting Wallowing Self pity Change things
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