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Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them.
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Don't love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you. Oh, dear boy, pray that whatever your sacrifice may be, it be not that.
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It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
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Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.
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The glorious transmutation of autumn had come on: all the vast Canadian shores were clothed with a splendour never seen in France; to which all the pageants of all the kings were as a taper to the sun.
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There is no God but one God and Art is his revealer; that’s my creed and I'll follow it to the end, to a hotter place than Pittsburgh if need be.
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And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him.
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It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the foundation of early races.
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Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.
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We agreed that no one who had not grown up in a little prairie town could know anything about it. It was a kind of freemasonry, we said.
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The spark in his eye, which is one's very self, caught the spark in hers that was herself, and for a moment they looked into each other's natures.
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Oh, he’s an old friend from the West,” said Eden easily. “I won’t introduce you, because he doesn’t like people. He’s a recluse. Good-bye.
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The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but the first-rate writer can only be experience. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
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Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgement of things he could not gracefully utter.
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He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He felt now that his surroundings explained him.
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Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.
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Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself--except that the changes were all in the direction of becoming more and more herself.
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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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Schools are not meant to make boys happy, C�cile, but to teach them to do without happiness.
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She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.
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But I can't help feeling scared when I think how I will miss you- more than you will ever know.
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Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing—desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.
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It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.
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I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away.
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I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.
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Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.
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What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
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It's awfully easy to rush into a profession you don't really like, and awfully hard to get out of it.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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