- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fact
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
- Basic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
- Hard Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020