"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact..."
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"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original..."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for..."
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"I am irritated by my writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but..."
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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you...."
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"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we..."
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"Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most..."
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"Read in order to live."
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"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it...."
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"To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason...."
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"You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without..."
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