Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

William Butler Yeats

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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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Dreams Feet Myself Poor
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Beautiful Myself Old Water
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Break Center Hold
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
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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Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
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
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Beautiful Enemy Innocence Time
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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Battle Character Dreams Fight Fools Inspirational Life Lose Myself Need Night Party Soul Win
Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Brief Delight Dreams Kind Love
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Difference Genius Talent Unity
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
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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Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hate Intellectual One Liner Worst
Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Nature One Liner World
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Appearance Beautiful Day Glow Season Wings
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
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.
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King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
In dreams begins responsibility.
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Beginning Dreams Inspirational One Liner Possible
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Connection Myself Relatable Tree Yourself
Myself I must remake.
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Build Improvement Myself Transformation
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
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
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

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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