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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine medieval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
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