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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries…
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss…
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun…
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
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Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces…
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
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I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with…
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Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to…
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