Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Myself I must remake.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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