"To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father."

Family, Father, Profession, Slavery

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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

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"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

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"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

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"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

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