Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
("A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man")
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Through the soft sigh of kiss to kiss,
Desolate winds assail with cries
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Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
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You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy.
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