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"Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions."
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"One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into."
"In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair, disposing of it by means of another question is not."
"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy."
"People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly."
"Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem."
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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
"I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity."
"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life."
"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."
"If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair."
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