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- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and…
- The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair…
- Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as…
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
- But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has…
- A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.
- You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing…
- The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
- There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If…
- Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
- If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will…
- In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally…
- One can only blaspheme if one believes.
- As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
- The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly…
- Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good…
- Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only…
- Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would…
- There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
- That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw…
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only…
- In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet…
- People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or…
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