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Virginia Moore
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“... the spring air is soft as pin feathers ...”
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“Virginia reeks of tobacco. Its odor saturates her like the coat of a veteran smoker. The brown stain of tobacco juice is on every page of her history.”
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“Air is a much kinder magician than fire, altering without destroying.”
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“Unhappiness often leads to religion ...”
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“... true self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others ...”
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“It ought to be possible for individuals to become spiritually rich, to grow profound in their souls, without suffering, but ordinarily they do not, and I think it is so with countries.”
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“Fortunately, there is excess in greatness; it can lose more than mediocrity possesses, and still be great.”
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“A poet is a state of mind.”
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“How close are religion and art? Both cry for spiritual beauty, and both must learn to be humble, to forget self, in order to reflect clearly, like a mirror unblemished by a particle of dust.”
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“An artist has the right to be judged by her best work.”
Virginia Moore, U.S. writer
(1903 - 1993)