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Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams
Age: 79 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 17
Died: 1963
Died: March 4
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A new world is only a new mind.
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Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.
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Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.
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We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
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