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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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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 basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
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