Robert Nathan Quotes

#1. We'd like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.

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#2. She has a look," I said, "of not altogether belonging to today.

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#3. Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still - the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

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#4. Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

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#5. The moment when the battle ends is not always a happy one: to fret and strain against evil is an act itself dear to a hearty spirit with convictions.

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#6. Art is a communication informing man of his own dignity, and of the value of his life, whether in joy or grief, whether in laughter or indignation, beauty or terror ... Man needs the comfort of his own dignity ... And that's what the artisf is for. To give him that comfort.

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#7. He gave me a timid smile. "The trouble is," he said, "that nobody paints our times. Nobody paints the age we live in." I murmured something about Benton, and John Steuart Curry. "No," he said, "we'll never find out what the age is like, by peering in a landscape." I

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#8. There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

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#9. There was nothing meek about her. She supposed that God loved her, but in a personal way; she took it for granted that He admired her.

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#10. Hugging isn't everything."

"Well," replied Juliet, "it's something.

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#11. What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.

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#12. We were rebels; and embraced freedom; yet we committed ourselves to love, and we were hopeful. Of what, I cannot exactly say: perhaps of a better way of life on earth. Well, we had reason: the last trump was not as close then as it is today.

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