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- It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost…
- It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
- The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious,…
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one…
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
- An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into…
- I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself…
- The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have…
- Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one…
- As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six…
- He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found…
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
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