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"What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness."

"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."

"The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult to produce and the good easy."

"You are funny like a kid and awesome like a princess. Unseen like an angel, like the morning sunshine, Kindness like a river and highness like a mountain, In the middle of the Rheine, the cute face and sweet lips, (La la la la, La la , mmmm , mm). Keep the lovely smile, in your juicy icy eyes, Open the heaven for my eyes, forever angel voice, Never angry never harsh, never mad never marsh, Dear or darling, either diamond or dime, Overall the dream of the world."

"It is difficult for flowers to hide their beauty, that is why they are always picked first."
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"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."


"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."


"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."


"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."


"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."


"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
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