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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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Love — but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and mamma between eleven and twelve. Love is aspiration: transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife — you know all about her — who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream?
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All reformers are bachelors—all extreme reformers have been bachelors.
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We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it... you and you alone make me feel that I am alive... Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
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Born:
February 24, 1852
Died:
January 21, 1933
(aged 80)
Bio:
George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo.
Known for:
Esther Waters (1894)
Confessions of a Young Man (1889)
A mummer's wife (1885)
A drama in muslin (1886)
The brook Kerith (1916)
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