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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Clocks Slay Dread Clicked
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

American Literature British Source
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Shame Work Eight hours Eat
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Aim Artist Motion Artificial
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .
Writer Culture Country Fine
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Room Full More Fill
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

After Final Future World
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Alone Beauty Come Death
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Poet Merely Proves Exists
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature Like Poem Often
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Becomes Case Certain Epidemic
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Applied Bearing Dress Found
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Behold Eyes Less Life
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Either Everything Makes Poison
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Rule Expert Keep Become
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Artist Listen Critics Reviews
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Better Cases Composed Doubtful
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them

Free Country Folks Send
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Because Earth Elements Extract
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Everyone Help Someone Tell
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Action Fear Overcome Thinking
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Artistic Artists Been Desired
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Shape Become Friends Careful
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders

Memory Remember Believe Recollect
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything

Reincarnated Buzzard Envies Danger
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Never Think Something Read
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Art Healing Mind Must
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Create Desires Earth Flows
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

True Choice Power Always
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from

Found Greatest Problem Yourself
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Also Art Before Consist
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Goal Desire Mind First
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Man will not merely endure; he will prevail

Man Merely Endure Prevail
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

Body Created Cures Greater
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Come Dreams Elements Fantasy
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Something Jumping Fence Horse
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Accepted Come Dreams Great
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Prepare Failure Success Again
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Another Bread Country Different
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Alone Anyone Awakening Back
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

About Account Basis Distress
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Aim Alchemy Consider Gold
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Alchemy Astronomy Ethics Four
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Begun Daddy Day Done
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I don't remember feeling love.
Feeling Love Remember
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next

Sound Worthiness Earth Human
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

Existed Written Hemingway
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