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The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most
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“Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity.”
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“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying.”
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“Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.—W. H. Auden”
― You Know What You Did
― You Know What You Did
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
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“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.”
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