"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
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"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."
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"The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height."
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"To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism."
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"It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one."
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"Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed."
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"If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it."
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"Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man."
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"Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine."
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"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well."
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"A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height."
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"Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do."
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"Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."
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"Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires."
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"On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine."
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"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
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