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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#come #fanatic #great #hatred #heart

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#angry #certain #end #getting #lose

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#because #difficult #exult #known #most

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dead #i #i am #interest #least

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#creations #earth #given #great #great writer

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

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