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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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“Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”
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“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
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“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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