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In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.
— Lafcadio Hearn
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
— Lafcadio Hearn
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
— Maureen Dowd
Do you think we find Jesus, or does He find us?
— J.I. Willett
I don't mind auditioning. Sometimes, I think it's necessary.
— Jessica Pare
Dear, dead women, with such hair, toowhat's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? — Robert Browning
We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge
— Lafcadio Hearn
Sometimes people say I think too much. Maybe it's true. If it is, it's because I feel too much.
— Nora Roberts
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
— Lafcadio Hearn
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
— Lafcadio Hearn
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
— Lafcadio Hearn
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
— Peter McWilliams
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
— Lafcadio Hearn
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
— Lafcadio Hearn
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
— Lafcadio Hearn
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
— Lafcadio Hearn
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
— Lafcadio Hearn
The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
— Lafcadio Hearn
Perhaps, after trillions of ages burning in different dynasties of suns, the very best of me may come together again.
— Lafcadio Hearn
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?
— Lafcadio Hearn
It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
— Lafcadio Hearn
We are all evil in some form or another, are we not?
— Richard Ramirez
