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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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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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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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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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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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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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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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