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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

William Butler Yeats

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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