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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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