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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
Poet
Poetry
Hear
Sound
Sights
Artist
Sounds
Art
Gift
Others
Sight
Cannot
Except

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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
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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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Women hope that the dead love may revive but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
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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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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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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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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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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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