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"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."
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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."
"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."
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"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."
"When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord."
"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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