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women angel suffering
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
music two kind
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
thoughtful thinking intuition
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.
art science thoughtful
Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
girl mind suffering
Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.
mind mouths may
Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.
gossip people faces
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
horse fall men
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.
world knows
He who best knows the world will love it least.
men cities world
For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
cutting steel
There are words which cut like steel.
women virtue defects
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
women feelings stronger
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
life mind habit
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.