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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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Novelty, the subtlest spring of all passion.
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I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
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Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.
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Born:
October 30, 1857
Died:
June 14, 1948
(aged 90)
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