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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

William Butler Yeats

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Myself I must remake.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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