"No bad man can be a good poet."

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

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"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."

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"They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise."

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"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

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"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth."

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"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."

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"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live."

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"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will."

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"Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."

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"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."

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