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"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"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."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."
"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."
"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."
"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person."
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
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