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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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"I see my life in terms of music."
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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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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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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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"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"
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"You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve."
Afterlife
"To do is to be."
Philosophy
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Leadership
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
Power
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
Choice
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
Reflection
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Ignorance
"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
Education
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
Self
"I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world."
Philosophy
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