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William Wordsworth: A voice so...

William Wordsworth: A voice so...

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the...

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Alexander Pope: Why has not...

Alexander Pope: Why has not...

Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And a dozen...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And a dozen...

And a dozen times we shook 'em off as a dog that shakes his ears
When he leaps from the water to the...

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Oscar Wilde: All art is...

Oscar Wilde: All art is...

All art is quite useless. So is a flower.

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray,...

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Oscar Wilde: All costumes are...

Oscar Wilde: All costumes are...

All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.

Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I come from...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I come from...

I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My regret<br>Becomes an...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: My regret
Becomes an...

My regret
Becomes an April violet,
And buds and blossoms like the rest.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The clouds are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The clouds are...

The clouds are lightly curled
Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...

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Oscar Wilde: I always pass...

Oscar Wilde: I always pass...

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to...

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Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never...

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Oscar Wilde: Through our sunless...

Oscar Wilde: Through our sunless...

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her....

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Henry David Thoreau: I fear chiefly...

Henry David Thoreau: I fear chiefly...

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of...

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Jack London: I write for...

Jack London: I write for...

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than...

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Arnold Bennett: In search of...

Arnold Bennett: In search of...

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four...

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Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Source:
-- Mark...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Source: Cane, 1923.
-- Jean...

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Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Source: Doctor Zhivago
-- Boris...

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