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"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
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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."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
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