Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTalent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Myself I must remake.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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