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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Ezra Pound

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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing

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