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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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