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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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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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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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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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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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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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