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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?
Ouida
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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
Novelist
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Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
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Sounds
Art
Gift
Others
Sight
Cannot
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Poetry
Hear
Sound
Sights
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[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --Wanda
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
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Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
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Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
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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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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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A little scandal is an excellent thing nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
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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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Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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