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The Noblest form of Affection

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Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, th...more

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No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpa...more

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works.

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And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's fr...more

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world...more

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red...more

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have temp...more