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"I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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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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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
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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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"Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly."
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"Law, without force, is impotent."
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"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."
Life
"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour."
Philosophy
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
Truth
"This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth."
Life
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
Philosophy
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
Nature
"Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment."
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
Life
"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
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