Leo (leo249)

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.—Letter to T. W. Higginson, 17 August 1870, Poet, Emily Dickinson

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Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.—On The Origin of Species, Naturalist, Charles Darwin

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The Master said, "They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it."—The Analects of Confucius, Philosopher, Confucius, Translator, James Legge

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Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment passed through the mind's eye until it fell to the ground like a rotten mango, perfectly useless, uselessly perfect. ——Homegoing, Novelist, Yaa Gyasi

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR. ——Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Writer, Mark Twain

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Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. —To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, Writer, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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His native home deep imag'd in his soul. —The Odyssey, Poet, Homer

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