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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."
"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."
"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."
"Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become."
"A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture."
"It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
"When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines."
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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."
"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."
"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."
"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."
"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."
"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
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