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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

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This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

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The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

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