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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

Ezra Pound

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

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