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Words of the world are the life of the world.
Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
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The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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