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Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding…
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because…
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,…
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the…
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given…
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which…
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and…
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it…

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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste… — Robert Greene
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Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in… — Giordano Bruno
Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others. — Jean Lorrain
Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love. — Mason Cooley
Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend. — Edward Dahlberg
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You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in… — John Ruskin
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in… — Tom Stoppard
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the… — Pope Francis
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.… — Paulo Coelho
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