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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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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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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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