Quotes by Vernon Lee - Page 1

There is no end to the deceits of the past.
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Deceit
Ends
Past
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There is too little courtship in the world.
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Courtship
Littles
World
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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Pleasure
Pleasure Of Reading
Reading
Consists
Greatest Pleasure
Re-Reading
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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Mankind
May
Theater
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What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
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Defined
Leisure
Mean
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A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
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Shyness
Sound
World
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Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.
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Framed
Letters
Personality
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poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
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Poetry
Depth
Mind
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Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.
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Art
Men
Expression
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things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
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Data
Doe
World
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Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
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Feelings
Mean
Mind
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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
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Add
Hustle
Progress
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Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.
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Barbarians
Civilization
Use
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There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.
Vernon Lee / Writer
Eye
Good Luck
Mean
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As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.
Vernon Lee / Writer
Believe
Brother
Thinking
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