Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKEMy mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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Opposition is true Friendship.
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