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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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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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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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.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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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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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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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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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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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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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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