Vernon Lee quotes
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“What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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“The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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“A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1929). “A Vernon Lee Anthology: Selections from the Earlier Works”
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“Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ...”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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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 LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”
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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.”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”
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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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“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.”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”
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“Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality ...”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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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 LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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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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“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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“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.”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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“... there is no end to the deceits of the past ...”
-- Vernon LeeSource : Vernon Lee (1908). “Limbo, and Other Essays: To which is Now Added, Ariadne in Mantua”
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