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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
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Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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