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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

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.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Help

Hurt

Nothing

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

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Beauty

Joy

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

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God

Heart

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Advice

Attention

Mistakes

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

Music my rampart, and my only one.

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Music

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!

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Friends

Night

Will

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.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

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Distrust

World

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

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Love

Absence

Trials

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

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God

Soul

Sky

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

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Old

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Edna St. Vincent Millay