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It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

— Margaret Fuller

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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

At Home And Abroad (1856)

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884)

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.

Dryad Song (1900)

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