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

Ezra Pound

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm 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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading

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