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[Pjeople in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

Spend all you have for loveliness, / Buy it and never count the cost; / For one white singing hour of peace / Count many a year of strife well lost, / And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Look for a lovely thing and you will find it, / It is not far— / It never will be far.

Beauty more than bitterness / Makes the heart break.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

One would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

 

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

 

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee.

 

“Each man’s soul is his genius.”

Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done.

Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gamble song, and Whistle through your comb.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art....

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I E. M.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I E. M.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.