"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."

Quality, Genius, Soul, Heart

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"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul."

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"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."

William James, American Philosopher

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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

bell hooks, American Critic

Quality, Sleep, Trying

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

George Eliot, British Author

Quality, May, Order, Paradoxes

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Quality, Thoughts, Public, Will

"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Quality, Decision

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Quality, Tears, World

"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Quality, Charm

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Quality, Growth, Discontent, Fact

"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Greatness, Time, Value

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Quality, Excellence, Effort, Values, Achievement

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"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."

Education

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

Genius

"I want to live quietly."

Want

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."

Happiness

"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."

Friendship

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

Desire

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

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"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."

"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

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"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."

"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."

"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."

"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

"I want to live quietly."

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."

"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."