He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he belie...
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
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The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteris...
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Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.
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L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.
