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"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."
"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
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