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 Flowers grow out of dark moments.  Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night. Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general. Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone-its value is incontestable. Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position. Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray? The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne. My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. I do not choose to run for President in 1928. Between friends there is no need of justice. Women don't have halos built in. Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away. Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth. 
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