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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 7th, 1873

Died: April 24th, 1947

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