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"Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out."
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"The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some of the same people) that books, popular songs, movies, television shows, sex videos, and so on are "just fiction" or "just art" and therefore exist "for their own sake" and have no influence. To argue that works of art are "only" fictions or self-expressions and therefore cannot cause bad behavior is to argue also that they cannot cause good behavior. It is, moreover, to make an absolute division between art and life, experience and life, mind and body - a division that is intolerable to anyone who is at all serious about being a human or a member of a community or even a citizen."
"Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery."
"Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can't see."
"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."
"A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
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"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."
"All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education."
"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man."
"Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling of fighting with their star or against it and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle."
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."
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