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“To live without a body!”
“Fear feeds the imagination.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“Everything has its poetry. 94”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“Justice is the truth in action.”
“War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion.”
“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”
“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102”
“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”
“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
“life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once.”
“Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.”
“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
“Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture t...”
“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
“Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.”
“Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.”
“Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!”
“It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.”
“Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?”
“Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.”
