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Beverly Sills

"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."

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"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."

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

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"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."

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"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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"There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm."
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."
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"A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down."
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"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."
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"Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance."
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"Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else."
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"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light."
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
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"My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't."
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