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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the…
• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's…
• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever…
• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on…
• Have you ever heard the earth breath?
• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft,…
• The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings…
• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her…
• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths…
• So the storm passed and every one was happy.
• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

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