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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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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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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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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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

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I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

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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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All writing is a form of prayer.

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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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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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