Ernest Dimnet - What We Live by (1932)

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

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We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province.

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Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.

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Where the writer produces that combination of perfect technique, human interest, and thruth, and can add to it that supreme touch, the perfection of art has been attained.

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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection, seldom fear the danger of being distracted by comers and goers.

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