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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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