In dreams begins responsibility.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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