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Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.
People create social conditions and people can change them.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?
So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.