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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.


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True villains are extremely photogenic.

True villains are extremely photogenic.



All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.



The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.



The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.



The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.



Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.



The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.



The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.



I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.



It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.





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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.



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The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.



People don´t need a job, they need a vision.

People don´t need a job, they need a vision.



Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.



And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep." Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep." Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.



It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.



What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal



As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!



You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.



Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.




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