The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

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I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

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I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

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The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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Old women can see through walls.

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The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.

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The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

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The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

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