Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in.
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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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