The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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