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Clive Bell

"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."

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"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."

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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

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"The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant."

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"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."

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"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."

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"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."

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"Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles."

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"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."

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"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."

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"The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own."

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"When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice."

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"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind."
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"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves."
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