For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us. Book III
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. The Critic as Artist
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