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“Pity would be no more,
If we did not make somebody Poor:
And Mercy no more could be,
If all were as happy as we;

And mutual fear brings peace;
Till the selfish loves increase.
Then Cruelty knits a snare,
And spreads his baits with care.”
― William Blake, The Complete Poetry and Prose

tags: blake, poetry, romanticism

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“They accumulate A world in which Man is by his nature the enemy of Man”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

tags: conflict, man, nature

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“Coal’s short but we’ve plenty of bog in the yard. And barley’s up again, begrained to it. The lads is attending school nessans regular, sir, spelling beesknees with hathatansy and turning out tables by mudapplication.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
― William Blake, All Religions Are One

tags: philosophy, religion, science

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“Marriage as a long conversation. When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

tags: conversation, discussion, marriage

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