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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Ezra Pound

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

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