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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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