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"We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
Man
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
Knowledge
"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
Man
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
Death
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
Nature
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
Nature
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