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" There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. "

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" The flesh is the surface of the unknown. "

" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

" One believes others will do what he will do to himself. "

" Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. "

" Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. "

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" Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. "

" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "

" To love another person is to see the face of God. "

" No one can keep a secret better than a child. "

" To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. "

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "

" Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. "

" We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. "

" Genius: the superhuman in man. "

" Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. "

" Those who live are those who fight. "

" Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. "

" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

" I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. "

" Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. "

" Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. "