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Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.
If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.
You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.
I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.
The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos.
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.
when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.