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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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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 truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
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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."
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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
Man
"History develops, art stands still."
Art
"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."
Life
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
Family
"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."
Curiosity
"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
Friendship
"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Religion
"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
Money
"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large."
Life
"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."
Society
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