the art of poetry

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“If one doesn’t know his mistakes, he won’t want to correct them.” - Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius https://t.co/JutCKlIpXv

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“It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.” - John Stuart Mill,... https://t.co/4OcHaoZr4a

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“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called into question. Things are arranged more easily and more satisfactorily without the intervention of the state. And in studying the progress made in this direction, we... https://t.co/XK1So5OOkV

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“Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.”... https://t.co/I1IIGLFguK

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“Even if the sacrifices which are made to duty and virtue are painful to make, they are well repaid by the sweet recollections which they leave at the bottom of the heart.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions https://t.co/a4TA1dgGn3

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“Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden https://t.co/5w8oIAO6dp

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“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists https://t.co/BReQ8EraSH

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“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“I am your labyrinth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters

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“The past is never dead, it’s not even past.” - William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

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“All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.” - Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son https://t.co/mTljkY9Hnz

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“I hesitate, I suppose it is only from a general dread of company. We all of us wish for it, in our solitude, but on the eve of a great visit, we shudder.” - Esi Edugyan, Washington Black https://t.co/glaXWTswwA

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“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.” - Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed https://t.co/xkK9zg9bvQ

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“Perceptions are always profound, associations deceiving. No watermelon tastes red. Apropos: while waiting for a bus once, I saw open down the arm of a midfat, midlife, freckled woman, suitcase tugging at her hand like a small boy needing to... https://t.co/n60c8bgFlo

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“Ignorance is bold.” - Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

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“I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.” - Albert Camus, The Fall

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“Absence, the highest form of presence.” - James Joyce, The Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

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“Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because... https://t.co/Q5ZoRnplL8

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“How is it that, connected with so much suffering, her face yet remains for me the face of happiness?” - Albert Camus, Notebooks (1956)

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“In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.” - Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia https://t.co/fOXFXCm9nU