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Robert Graves has 79 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows,…
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be…
— George Iles
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail…
— Mary Karr
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I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare…
— Unknown Author
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Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day…
— Joan Walsh Anglund
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I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside…
— Cheryl Strayed
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With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
— Franz Kafka
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The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the…
— Frederick Lenz
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The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment…
— Frederick Lenz
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The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and…
— Hilda Doolittle
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Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts…
— Gerard De Nerval
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