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What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body, heart and mind, the responsibility of flattering, in our place, the self of which we are not very certain.
It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out, and minutely articulated.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse.
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.
To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.


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