Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

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All writing is a form of prayer.

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To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

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