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"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
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"The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision."
"But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts."
"You shouldn't expect anyone to give you a vision. A vision is not given, it's created, by you."
"Build your dreams through your imagination by looking into the future and considering all possibilities."
"The Christians and the world have totally different goals."
"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
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"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."
"The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading."
"A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature."
"If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he asks nothing more nourishing out of books and the theatre than he gets hanging about the store, the bar and the street-corner, then culture is bound to be dragged down to him instead of his being lifted up by culture."
"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."
"The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done."
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