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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
Conviction

"But time has set its maggot on their track."
Time

"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
Love

"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
Art

"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it."
Family

"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
Legacy

"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
Fool

"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."
Writing

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
Work

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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Personal Development

"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
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Personal Development

"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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Personal Development

"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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Personal Development

"It is better to believe than doubt."
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Personal Development

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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Personal Development

"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
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Personal Development

"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
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