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We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong.

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. ...more

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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

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The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

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Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!What a refuge it is to be completely unreli...more

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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - ...more

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To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in...more

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

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And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a piano student k...more

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To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. ...more

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And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wis...more

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I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. A...more