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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
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"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

"I don't want everyone to like me, I should think less of myself if some people did."

"That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything."

"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."

"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
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