Theodore Dreiser Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Theodore Dreiser:

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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Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
~Theodore Dreiser


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theodore-dreiser-quotes/#8b3362c8

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
~Theodore Dreiser


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theodore-dreiser-quotes/#705cd26d

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
~Theodore Dreiser


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theodore-dreiser-quotes/#e66c4b89

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theodore-dreiser-quotes/#509d7d08

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
~Theodore Dreiser


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theodore-dreiser-quotes/#2536c6c6

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
~Theodore Dreiser


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theodore-dreiser-quotes/#cdfbf0c0

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
~Theodore Dreiser


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/theodore-dreiser-quotes/#465ad2bb

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