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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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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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Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
Myself I must remake.
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Build Improvement Myself Transformation
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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Easy Home Invention Journalist Lying Man Stay Vote
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Break Center Hold
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Difference Genius Talent Unity
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
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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Eyes Love Myself Romance See Wine Yourself
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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Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Joy Labor Obstacle Success
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Beautiful Myself Old Water
All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Beautiful Body Dreams End Man Soul Woman
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Death Imagination Live Logic Reason
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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Cry Explanation Teaching
The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Dreams Reality Visible World
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Close Key Uncertain
I 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.
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Break Course Hard Heart Love
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Myself Suffering Wisdom
Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Build Inspirational Reality Unity Yourself

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