"The scene is France. The theater is the world."

Art, Observation, Truth, Wisdom, Life

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"The scene is France. The theater is the world."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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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."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."

Society

"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."

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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

Motivation

"He believed that rank without power was a sham."

Authority

"A historian cannot pick and choose his facts, he must deal with all the evidence."

History

"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

History

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Thought

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

War

"His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction."

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"Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway."

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