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"One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves."
"Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: ? in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures."
"Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly."
"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
"Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state."
"Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade."
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."
"Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud."
