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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Ezra Pound

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake

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