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Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Ezra Pound

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

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