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