"If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree."
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"And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey."
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"The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul."
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"Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart."
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"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots."
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"Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while."
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"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
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"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."
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"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die."
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"Everything in nature is resurrection."
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"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."
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"A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote."
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"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
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"Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold."
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"Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight."
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"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."
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"On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
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"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead."
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"Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned."
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"Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others."
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