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"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
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"When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: 'This is for my benefit."
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Personal Development

"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."
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"When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me."
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"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
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"They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel."
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"I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."
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"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"
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"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
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"America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?"
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
Civilization

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
Detail

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization

"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
Ideas

"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience

"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom

"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
Expression

"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Mind

"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
Wisdom
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