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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...
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Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they...
Find me the men on earth who careEnough for faith or creed todayTo seek a barren wildernessFor simple...
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. More about this quote
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any...
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. More about this quote
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.Source: In...
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence. More about this quote
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to...
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary...
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own...
It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I...
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of...
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat...
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse...
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we...
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