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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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Cease
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Beauty
Forever
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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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