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- Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up…
- The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
- Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....
- Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude…
- I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
- Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and…
- What you did, any of us might. And saying so I see our difference: Not your aplomb (I used mine to sit tight), But fancying…
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