Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
James Stephens
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
bravery fear curiosity conquer
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
originality
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies
women enemies animals birds provision
sleep listening opera
It has occurred to me, brother, that wisdom may not be the end to everything. Goodness and kindness are, perhaps, beyond wisdom. Is it not possible that the ultimate end is music and gaiety and a dance of joy? Wisdom is the oldest of all things. Wisdom is all head and no heart. Behold, brother, you are being crushed under the weight of your head. You are dying of old age while you are yet a child.
life wisdom heart
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
memory past forgetfulness
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.
past
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
life duty
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
death
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
women age men
A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
man
Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing else.
speed light
If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day; But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange! May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.
glory
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