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He valued life and literature...

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

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You seemed to me to be soarin...

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

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It was the way the autumn day...

It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.

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Her chief dread in life, at t...

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

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There are moods in which one ...

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

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Life being all inclusion and ...

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

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One of my latest sensations w...

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

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Art requires, above all thing...

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

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I recall my fleeting instants...

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

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Art derives a considerable pa...

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

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We are divided of course betw...

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

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All roads lead to Rome, and th...

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

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Adjectives are the sugar of li...

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

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Little by little, even with ot...

Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

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She had a certain way of looki...

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

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The power to guess the unseen ...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

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...the great merit of the plac...

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

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A tradition is kept alive only...

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

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He was there or was not there:...

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

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Oxford lends sweetness to labo...

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

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