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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.