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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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