Randolph Silliman Bourne
American writer and intellectual
Lived from: 1886 - 1918
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States
Born: 30 may 1886 Died: 22 december 1918
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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Most older men live only in the experience of their youthful years.
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Our friends are chosen for us by some hidden law of sympathy, and not by our conscious wills.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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We must recognize that our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
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The logic of the heart is usually better than the logic of the head, and the consistency of sympathy is superior as rule for life to the consistency of the intellect.
Youth and life (1913)― Randolph Silliman Bourne
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