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"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force."
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
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"Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be."
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"Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
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"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."
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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."
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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."
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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."
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"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Art

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."
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"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
Language

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Man

"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
Heaven

"Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses."
Sensuality

"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust."
Sensationalism

"I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old."
Society
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