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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."

"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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