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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

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I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he d...more

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Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it tre...more

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherenc...more

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

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Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show...more

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Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

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Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, t...more