Theodore Dreiser Quotes

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. - Theodore Dreiser quote.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
— Theodore Dreiser Life, Art, and America

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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. - Theodore Dreiser quote.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
— Theodore Dreiser

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How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. - Theodore Dreiser quote.
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
— Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie

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If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance, an envelope to pocket him from the unescapable and unstable illimitable. - Theodore Dreiser quote.
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance, an envelope to pocket him from the unescapable and unstable illimitable.
— Theodore Dreiser The “Genius”

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If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.
— Theodore Dreiser

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