“ I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain. ”
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“ He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. ”
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“ A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ”
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“ The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ”
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“ I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ”
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“ I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ”
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“ One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ”
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“ The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. ”
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“ The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. ”
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“ I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ”
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“ He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. ”
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“ The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. ”
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“ To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. ”
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“ One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ”
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“ One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ”
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“ The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. ”
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“ I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. ”
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“ One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ”
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“ One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ”
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“ To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. ”
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“ I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ”
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“ One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ”
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“ I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ”
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“ I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ”
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“ I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. ”
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