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“Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.”

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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

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My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

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The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

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You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

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Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

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I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

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The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

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All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

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The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

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