Adams

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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.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    No European spring had shown him the same intermixture of delicate grace and passionate depravity that marked the Maryland May.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)