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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.

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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.

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