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Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Moonlight is sculpture."

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

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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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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"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."

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"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

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"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered."
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"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
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"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
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"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."
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"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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