25 ordspråk av Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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Euclid alone / Has looked on Beauty bare, Fortunate they / Who, though once only and then but far away, / Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
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Life must go on; I forget just why.
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My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light! Edna St
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
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