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Quote by Ezra Pound
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of li

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. – Douglas MacArthur

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to ones reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy

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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. – William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Justifying a fault doubles it. – French Proverb

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I cant look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just cant. Id rather age. – Heidi Klum

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