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Ezra Pound

"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."

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"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."

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"The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again."

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"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."

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"Don't some people say, 'You did not value me'? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, 'what is my worth?' You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence."

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"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."
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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
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"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
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