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... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general... More
... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography. More
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are... More
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing... More
... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. More
... I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing. More
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would... More
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition... More
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets,... More
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt ...... More
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The... More
... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks... More
... it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is... More
... no woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. More
... often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and colour. I have the... More
... passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry. More
... the courts cannot garnish a father’s salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property... More
... the God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men’s minds is far from being the same from... More
... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds... More
... the victim accommodates to power. The victim doesn’t want anymore [sic] trouble. More
... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to... More
... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept... More
... writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of... More
...I ... believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of... More
...Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge... More
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the... More
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and... More
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. More
A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is... More
A blessing through the ages thus
Shield all thy roofs and towers!
God with the fathers,... More
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and... More
A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,—
They treated nature as they would. More
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to... More
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it... More
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the... More
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it... More
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of... More
A child should always say what’s true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave... More
A crowd of ordinary decent folk
Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke
As three... More
A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short. More
A deep man believes in miracles, waits for them, believes in magic, believes that the orator will... More
A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on... More
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. More
A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a... More
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the... More
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. More
A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that... More
A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a... More
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong... More
A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the... More
A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not... More
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and... More
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. More
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. More
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing... More
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. More
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. More
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical... More
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the... More
A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden... More
A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which... More
A good deal of our politics is physiological. More
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble... More
A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite... More
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. More
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one—they shew one another off to the... More
A great artist is a great man in a great child. More
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. More
A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action. A beautiful woman is a picture which... More
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a... More
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his... More
A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. More
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. More
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the... More
A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind,... More
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe... More
A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because... More
A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to... More
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer,... More
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated... More
A learned man is not learned in all things; but the accomplished man is accomplished in all... More
A life I didn’t choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have... More
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband. More
A little integrity is better than any career. More
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s... More
A lock-jaw that bends a man’s head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his... More
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a... More
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an... More
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. More
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. More
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for... More
A man has a right to be employed, to be trusted, to be loved, to be revered. The power of love,... More
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse... More
A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a... More
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in... More
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the... More
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair’s breadth. More
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules... More
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him;... More
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality... More

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