"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

Life, Imitation

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"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact."

History, Fact, Opinion, Public

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

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"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."

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"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."

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"What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?"

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"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."

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"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."

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"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."

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"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"

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"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."

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