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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotio...more

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world...more

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I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, ...more

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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

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Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you ...more

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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

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It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Eithe...more

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What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and eve...more

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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you...more

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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the...more