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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.


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Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.



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What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?



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Even paranoids have real enemies.



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Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.



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Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.



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Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.



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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.



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How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?



And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.



The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.





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