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- That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no…
- In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
- I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For…
- I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for…
- As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
- He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.…
- They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could…
- Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever…
- You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals…
- I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took…
- Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for…
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
- I don't like work - no man does - but I like what's in the work: the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -…
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