At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.
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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
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The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.
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Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.
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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
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Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.
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