In dreams begins responsibility.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt 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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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