Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.
I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.
The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.
I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Goodbye -- Because I love you.
The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.
but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.
Have you ever heard the earth breath?
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
So the storm passed and every one was happy.
She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.
We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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