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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will…
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband…
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,…
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long…
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves -…
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless…
— Sigmund Freud
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The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no…
— Peter Medawar
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We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may…
— Sigmund Freud
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O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
— Walt Whitman
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With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from…
— Paul Celan
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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
— George A. Smith
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