- She loved him with every cell in her body. She found delight in every part of him. His irrepressible laugh, the merry eyes that merely always looked as if he'd just heard the most amusing punch line, his presence in every waking moment. She loved the way he impulsively brushed the back of his hand across her cheek at unexpected moments.
- Mamah realized he cared for him for the very reason he made other people squirm.
- Frank was like that. His ears and eyes and heart were tuned to seek truth in place where other people didn’t look. In this, and in so many other ways, she felt a kindred spirit to him.
- Truth against the world.
- Finding you was like finding a safe place to live again. Before I met you, I feel I could soar at the drawing table, but I always came back to my most static prison in marriage. It set me free to find you, to think there was a possibility of something more expansive. You make me want to be a better man. A better artist.
- To experience such love is to feel oneself doubled. Such feeling liberates and deepens the personality, inspires us to noble deeds and works of genius. When this great love happens---and it is but once in a lifetime---it has a higher right than all other feelings. The perfect love establishes its own right in a life.
- Laws and rules are made for the average man.
- The ordinary man cannot live without rules to guide his conduct. It is indefinitely more difficult to live without rules, but this is what the really honest, sincere, thinking man is compelled to do. And I think when man has displayed some spiritual power, has given concrete evidence of his ability to see and to feel the higher and better things in life, we ought to go slow in deciding he has acted badly.
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