"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves."

Emotional, Feeling, Memory, Senses

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"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves."

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"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

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"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

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"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

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