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"He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure."
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"As events beyond my control unfold. I go within to find peace."

"A calm night is open to all the truths."

"When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!"

"Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!"

"I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself."

"I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation."

"The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing."
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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."

"We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
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