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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them."
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