"There is just one life for each of us: our own " — Euripides

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Source: Psychology: Briefer Course (1892)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

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