Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.
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?
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.
but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
So the storm passed and every one was happy.
The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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.
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.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
Goodbye -- Because I love you.
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.
We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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.
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