They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
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