“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.