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“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.”
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“... the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.”
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“Smells brought back the earliest memories. Floods of soft and helpless nostalgia for childhood would pour over me when the sea winds carried the sharp smell of sagebrush, the herbal smell of yellow sand verbena, the salty odor of the drying whips of seaweed along the tide line, their bulbous tips squeezed open by a child's playful toe.”
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“To do the work that you are capable of doing is the mark of maturity.”
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“... the common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it ...”
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“I loathe nostalgia.”
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“No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.”
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“Most real relationships are involuntary.”