 To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness...  Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker - Page 60by Claudia Franken - 2000 - 393 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 266 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1922 - 410 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits ; for, after...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. AVhile all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1922 - 272 pages
...even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after all, habit is relative to a 236 ! r e. stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 pages
...our failure is I >rm habits : for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, is ; "fantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Rodolphe Louis Mégroz - 1927 - 344 pages
...this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits ; for, after...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike . . . With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 552 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Rodolphe Louis Mégroz - 1927 - 346 pages
...this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits ; for, after...the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, tilings, situations, seem alike . . . With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 pages
...this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits; for, after...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at 279 any exquisite passion, or any contribution... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...and to maintain an "ecstasy" of intense moments "is success in life." "Our failure," correspondingly, "is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world"; and to maximize the ecstasy of our sensuous existence, art has the most to offer, "for art comes to you... | |
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