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"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
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"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
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"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
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"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
Heaven
"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
Virtue
"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
Sea
"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
Art
"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."
Fear
"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."
Time
"A closed mouth catches no flies."
Leadership
"Man appoints, and God disappoints."
God
"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
Music
"Virtue is the truest nobility."
Virtue
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