"Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance."

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Source : Arthur Symons (1958). “The symbolist movement in literature”

Arthur Symons

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“Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which arenâ€™t.”
“You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!”
“A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'”
“I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.”
“If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I'd hand my German passport back, if I had one.”

Source : "Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons". Book by by Tom Bower, p. 23, 1984.
“To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?”
“In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.”
“It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.”

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