Henry Adams
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.