"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."

Art, Music, God, Earth

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"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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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"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."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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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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"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

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"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."

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"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

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"Consult duty not events."

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"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."

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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."

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"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."

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"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."

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