"Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if……" — Arnold Bennett
"Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past."
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82 Quotes by Arnold Bennett
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to…
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin…
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its…
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