"For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss."
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"Art is evidence of our most creative moment."
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"The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part."
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"The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant."
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"Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within."
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"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."
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"Revolutions go not backward."
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"Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules."
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"Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others."
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"Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events."
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"That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?"
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"Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods."
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"But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things."
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"The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other."
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"Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life."
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"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest"
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"Build therefore your own world."
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"I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable."
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"All history is biography."
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"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."
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