… there are shadows because there are hills.

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… there are shadows because there are hills.

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Else Itself Nothing Point Something Together
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Describe Dull Exaggerate Most Nothing Obliged
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Cast Move Something Thing
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Down Irritate Like Think Three Type
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.

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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Intention Once Shall Told
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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More Motor No Various
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Equipped Inconsistency
It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Cut Fence Fully Make Other Whether
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Collective Curtain Drawn Ficker
I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Protect Shield
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Comfort Itself Over
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Makem Goodness Readable Writer
My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Disbelieve Motto Temple Unbelief
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Teach
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Back Long Really Some
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Deeper Inscrutable

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