“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
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“[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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