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A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder...
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be...
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's...
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Source: The Habit of Being,...
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
Source: Books...
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and...
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Source: The...
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Source: In...
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to...
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,...
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Source:...
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent...
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
Source: On being praised...
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to...
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does...
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Source: Letters and Social Aims,...