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"Imitation cannot go above its model."
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
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"Imitation is a necessity of human nature."
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"Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of pain."
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"The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
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"I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up."
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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
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"Imitation cannot go above its model."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Justice
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Art
"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
Morality
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
Time
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
Philosophy
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
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"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
Perception
"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
Happiness
"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
Philosophy
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