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Vernon Lee Quotes

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers Picture Quote #1

... there is no end to the deceits of the past Picture Quote #1

There is too little courtship in the world Picture Quote #1

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers (Vernon Lee Quotes) ... there is no end to the deceits of the past (Vernon Lee Quotes) There is too little courtship in the world (Vernon Lee Quotes) What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined (Vernon Lee Quotes) 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 Lee Quotes) 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 (Vernon Lee Quotes) 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 (Vernon Lee Quotes) 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 (Vernon Lee Quotes) 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 Lee Quotes)