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Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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Art never expresses anything but itself.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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