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- For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
- A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those…
- He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
- A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe…
- The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;…
- Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily…
- Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It…
- The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his…
- A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his…
- Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
- Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
- A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most of…
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