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I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to ...more

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In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mea...more

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The earth was a grave: our life was lent to it by its elements and had to be returned: a time came when the simple elements seemed to long for release...more

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And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is som...more

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But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were in...more

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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison ...more

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More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when the...more

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And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old...more

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The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.