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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."

"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
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