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True villains are extremely photogenic.

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.
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It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
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The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
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I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
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A violent order is disorder and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
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It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.
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What is one man among so many men? What are so many men in such a world? Can one man think one thing and think it long? Can one man be one thing and be it long?
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Make the visible a little hard to see.
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Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
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The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
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If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow
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