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- Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
- My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
- Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains,…
- Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get…
- I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.
- For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
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