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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"I see my life in terms of music."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."

"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."

"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."

"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
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