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"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
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"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."
"The landscape looks different from every blade of grass."
"Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see."
"Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?"
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am."
"She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for."
"There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other aspects of their being because we are emotionally invested in that person fulfilling a specific role in our life. When we claim that the other person changed it is not so much that they altered their core composition, but we now must admit to ourselves that our original perception of them was imprecise."
"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."
"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
"Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively."
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"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."
"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me."
"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
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