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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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