"Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!"
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"Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!"
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"Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence."
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"[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully."
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"These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret."
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"Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak."
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"I can speak French but I cannot understand it."
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"At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific."
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"Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination."
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"I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie."
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"I'm free... to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't. I can. And my children will."
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"Never speak more clearly than you think."
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"When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else."
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"Great sorrows cannot speak."
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"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
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"I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul."
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"To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty"
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"Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak."
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"The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized."
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"Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice."
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