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“Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.”
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“I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.”
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“Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.”
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“I learned ... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”
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“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.”
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“Goodnight stars / Goodnight air / Goodnight noises everywhere.”
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“... a man is much sexier in nothing than something, and that goes for hairpieces as well as clothes.”
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“... the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.”