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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves."
Art
"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
Reality
"All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art."
Art
"We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it."
Art
"Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class."
Mistake
"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy."
Art
"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."
Emotional
"Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age."
Age
"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."
Art
"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."
Politics
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