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“... to certain temperaments civilization in general is a bore.”
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“Art is the great sensitive intelligence. Science tells us what things were, and what they shall be; but art tells us what they are. It transmits the fact and the emotion which is its due. It crystallizes from the chaos of experiences the relations of a moment, the pose of an instant, one clash of motives, one mesh of absurdities, one trick of words, one of the infinite combinations of sound with motion; and that which would have slipped by us unnoticed has been made eternal. Art is that high activity of nature by which it interprets its own emotional reaction upon itself.”
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“What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.”
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“There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.”
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“Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good — ' It never is.”
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“The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.”
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“... solitude was still essential to him. He couldn't tolerate twenty-four hours in which the greater part wasn't spent entirely alone.”
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“Have you noticed that some women make maternity, legitimatized, a perpetual exoneration?”