Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Myself I must remake.
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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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 that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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