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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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One should absorb the color of life.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

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