 To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness...  Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker - Page 60by Claudia Franken - 2000 - 393 pagesLimited preview - About this book
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...1:173, 172. "And deeper than did ever plummet sound / I'll drown my book" (The Tempest 5.1.56—57). form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to...any two persons, things, situations, seem alike." 6 But compared to Pater, or even to Shakespeare, Eliot is doing something harder: he is trying to reorder... | |
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...ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion or any contribution to knowledge... | |
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