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Quote by Theodore Dreiser

“Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.”

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Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser was a prominent American novelist known for his profound social realism. His works often focused on the lives and moral dilemmas of the American middle class, with notable novels including 'The Financier' and 'An American Tragedy'. Dreiser's writing style had a significant impact on 20th-century American literature. more

“What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.”

Ifs Feels May Voice Memories Power Like You Fingers Over You Powerless Our Memories Will Power

Book:The Ages of Chaos

Source: The Ages of Chaos

“Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.”

Compassion Power Intemperance Progeny

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.”

Power Overcoming Cowardice Incorrigible

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think