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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Source: Les Mots.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through...
Everything has been figured out except how to live.
Source: In 1,911 Best Things...
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour...
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a...
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Source: In The Speaker's...
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Source: In Instant Quotation...
Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Source: In...
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not...
Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in...
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Source: Locksley Hall, 143.
-- Alfred, Lord...
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Source: In The...
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
Source: Enoch Arden.
-- Alfred, Lord...
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Source: In...
The world which credits what is done
Is cold to all that might have been.