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"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"I see my life in terms of music."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."
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"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."


"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."


"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."


"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."


"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."


"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
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