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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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Personal Development

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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Personal Development

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Who, being loved, is poor?"
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?"
Want

"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."
Being

"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
Fire

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."
Poetry

"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."
War

"I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity."
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"She was the Judy Garland of American poetry."
Poetry

"The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity."
Sex

"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."
Writing

"I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome."
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