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"The art is long, life is short."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"I see my life in terms of music."
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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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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."
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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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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"
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"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
God
"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
Harm
"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
Comfort
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
Time
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance."
Science
"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
Fire
"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."
Habit
"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
Science
"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words."
Virtue
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
Nature
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