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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
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I know how you suffer, and that's why I'm here.
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Yes, one has read; but this is beyond any book.
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People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts.
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I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
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