Vernon Lee Quotes

• What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

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  Mean, Leisure, Defined

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• There is no end to the deceits of the past.

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  Past, Deceit, Ends

  Vernon Lee (1908). “Limbo, and Other Essays: To which is Now Added, Ariadne in Mantua”

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• El mayor placer de la lectura consiste en releer.

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  Reading, Pleasure, Pleasure Of Reading

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

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  Arte, Hombres, Expresión

  Vernon Lee (1909). “Renaissance fancies & studies”

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• A pesar de nuestra complicada civilización, o tal vez a causa de ella, todos somos un mero conjunto de bárbaros, a los que les cuesta menos conseguir una cosa nueva, barata y de mala calidad que obtener el máximo uso y placer de una cosa vieja bien hecha y cuidadosamente elegida.

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  Civilization, Barbarians, Use

  Vernon Lee (1904). "Hortus vitae : ensayos sobre el jardín de la vida"

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• There is too little courtship in the world.

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  World, Littles, Courtship

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

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  Sound, World, Shyness

  Vernon Lee (1929). “A Vernon Lee Anthology: Selections from the Earlier Works”

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• There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.

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  Eye, Good Luck, Mean

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• Hay una tendencia desafortunada... a permitir que cada nueva invención aumente las complicaciones de la vida, y que cada nuevo poder aumente el ajetreo de la vida; de modo que, a menos que podamos dominar la travesura, en realidad estamos peor en lugar de estar mejor.

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  Hustle, Progress, Add

  Vernon Lee (1904). "Hortus vitae : ensayos sobre el jardín de la vida"

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• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

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  Hermano, Creer, Pensar

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

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  May, Theater, Mankind

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

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  Poetry, Mind, Depth

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• Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

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  Mean, Feelings, Mind

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• Las cartas de algunas personas parecen casi enmarcadas para ofrecer una serie de coartadas para su personalidad.

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  Personality, Letters, Framed

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• Las cosas en este mundo se promedian de manera muy aproximada; y aunque promediar es una manera útil y rápida de despachar los asuntos, sin duda desperdicia mucho que es demasiado bueno para desperdiciarlo.

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  Data, Doe, World

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