"There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort."
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"Keep making the movements of life."
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"Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world."
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"When I am wicked I am in high spirits."
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"Her memory's your love. You want no other."
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"England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head."
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"The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of."
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"In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons."
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"Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open."
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"..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
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"Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins."
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"She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense."
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"It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools."
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"You are good for nothing unless you are clever."
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"God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none."
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"Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything."
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"You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional."
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"Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure."
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"We must for dear life make our own counter-realities."
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"My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter."
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