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We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world...more

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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow they throw as they pass by, upon hillock or wa...more

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It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.

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And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, wh...more

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It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals...more

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As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from t...more

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We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happens to us is divinely great, and we are always in th...more

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If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I...more

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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. There is nothing in the worl...more

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Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above th...more

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In all truth might it be said that beauty is the unique aliment of our soul, for in all places does it search for beauty, and it perishes not of hunge...more

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Must we always be warned, and can we only fall on our knees when some one is there to tell us that God is passing by? If you have loved profoundly you...more

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To love one’s neighbour in the immovable depths means to love in others that which is eternal; for one’s neighbour, in the truest sense of the term, i...more

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It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such dread of its slightest movement. Did we but allow i...more