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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time and the drawback if you do not give it your full attention of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Reason is a crutch for age but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age I'm actually overweight.

A bad manner spoils everything even reason and justice a good one supplies everything gilds a No sweetens a truth and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power knowledge and sexuality since the classical age it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.