When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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