Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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