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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."

"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land."

"Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that formsthe fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweedsfilled your body with joy, and your luminous eyesand your mouth that has the smile of the water.A black yearning sun is braided into the strandsof your black mane, when you stretch your arms.You play with the sun as with a little brookand it leaves two dark pools in your eyes."

"I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window."

"I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,absorbing and thinking, eating each day."

"Solo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano."

"A book,a book fullof human touches,of shirts,a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools,a bookis victory."

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."
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