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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
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Nobody running at full speed has either a head or a heart.
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Only for his dreams is a man responsible, his actions are what he must do.
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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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