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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form ...  
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.  
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to l...   Nature
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.   Death
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the ...  
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.  
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their f...  
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can eve...  
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arroganc...  
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.  
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restrict...  
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the yo...  
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it ...  
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the huma...  
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces o...  
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the g...  
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took it...  
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating th...  
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.  
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporte...  
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shi...   Art
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afrai...  
Where there is great love there are always miracles.  
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.   Love
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and ...