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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to the other.
Youth is optimism and trust.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, good and bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.