"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."

Art, Thoughts, Politeness

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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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."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

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

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Play, Success, Audience, Failure

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Music, Experience, Truth, Life

"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."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."

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"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes."

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"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."

God

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

"History develops, art stands still."

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

"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."

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

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

"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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"The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action."

"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."

"A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it."

"Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them."

"In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable."

"A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn."

"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent."

"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike."

"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes."

"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."