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The beautiful is always bizarre.

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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...more

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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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To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

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The Beautiful is always strange.

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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...more

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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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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.