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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.

William Butler Yeats

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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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