You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.

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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

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Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

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Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

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Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

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I am not the we of anyone.

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Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

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If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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