The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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