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"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
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"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."
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"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
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