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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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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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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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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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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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