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I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Because we bring so little is no reason to bring nothing.
Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.
New words are always being born and old ones fading away.
A country without a language is a country without a soul.
Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.
A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.
Love wants everything without condition, love has no law.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.
Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.
Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.
Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.