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for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
Novelist
Writer
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
Cannot
Except
Poet
Poetry
Hear
Sound
Sights
Artist
Sounds
Art
Gift
Others
Sight

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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
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The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.
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It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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you have not a boat of your own, that is just it that is what women always suffer from they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
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Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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