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For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.
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The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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The first and last lesson of the useful arts is, that Nature tyrannizes over our works.
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The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.
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The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
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Ignorance is visited as sharply as wilful disobedience
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Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.