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CXXI



\'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem\'d,

When not to be receives reproach of being;

And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem\'d

Not by our feeling, but by others\' seeing:

For why should others\' false adulterate eyes

Give salutation to my sportive blood?

Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,

Which in their wills count bad what I think good?

No, I am that I am, and they that level

At my abuses reckon up their own:

I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;

By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;

  Unless this general evil they maintain,

  All men are bad and in their badness reign.

 	--William Shakespeare

It\'s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for
words.
T. S. Eliot

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are
real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot