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A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words__he bride__nd spaces__he groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it__ yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat__ others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.

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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking__hat the mind is one__ only judge of values and one__ only guide of action__hat reason is an absolute that permits no compromise__hat a concession to the irrational invalidates one__ consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality__hat the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind__hat the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one__ consciousness.

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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it__hat no substitute can do your thinking__hat the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.