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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
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I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.
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Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
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He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
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For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.
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You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you look at the poem and you realize, 'That is truly what I felt.' That is truly what I saw.
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
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Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.
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There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
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That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
