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"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."
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"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."

"While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all."

"When mind stuck, entertain your heart."

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
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"From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own."

"France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man."

"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."

"Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?"

"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"

"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."
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