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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.



A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.



Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them the one, in fact, which is not a mask.



The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.



The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.



Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.



I am beginning to lose patienceWith my personal relations.They are not deepAnd they are not cheap.



All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.



The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age








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