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“הניחו שלושה גרגרי חול בתוך קתדרלה גדולה, והקתדרלה תהיה יותר מלאה בחול מכפי שהחלל מלא בכוכבים.”
“שמש של אחר הצהריים - אלה היפות שבמילים בלשון האנגלית.”
“החיים הם מצב לא נעים המקדים את המוות.”
“הגיע הזמן להתחיל לחיות את חיינו כפי שאנו מדמיינים אותם בנפשנו.”
“תמיד התעניינתי באנשים, אך מעולם לא אהבתי אותם.”
“Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.”
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.”
“If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.”
“I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.”
“Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”
“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
“The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.”
“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”
“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.”
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
“If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.”
“It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.”
“The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.”
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
“Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!”