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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 7th, 1873

Died: April 24th, 1947

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