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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."
"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy."
"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."
"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind."
"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."
"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless."
"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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