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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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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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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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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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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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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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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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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
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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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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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