Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
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If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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