"Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend."

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Martial

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“I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.”
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the ***** room. I don't give a ***** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.”
“I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.”
“Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.”
“I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt”
“There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.”
“To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.”

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