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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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