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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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Others
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Cannot
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Hear
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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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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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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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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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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
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We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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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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Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
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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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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
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