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John Cowper Powys quotes: Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

John Cowper Powys quotes: Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

John Cowper Powys quotes: This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.

This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.

John Cowper Powys quotes: The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

John Cowper Powys quotes: One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

John Cowper Powys quotes: Life is short and the number of books is appalling.

Life is short and the number of books is appalling.

John Cowper Powys quotes: Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

John Cowper Powys quotes: The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

John Cowper Powys quotes: We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

John Cowper Powys quotes: Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

John Cowper Powys quotes: It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.

It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.

John Cowper Powys quotes: Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

John Cowper Powys quotes: A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

John Cowper Powys quotes: To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.