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The Hill of Dreams (1907)
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.
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There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
March 3, 1863
Died:
December 15, 1947
(aged 84)
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