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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

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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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

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

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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

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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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I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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

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Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

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In dreams begin responsibilities.

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I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

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