"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."

Art, History, Song, World

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"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."

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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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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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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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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Only sick music makes money today."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

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"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."

Mortality, Death, Madness, Life, Fear

"And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank."

Philosophy, Nature, Reality, Truth, Power

"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."

Civilization, Trade, Death, Change, Conquest

"Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very last. But the wilderness found him out early, and had taken vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core."

Philosophy, Isolation, Nature, Reflection, Solitude

"One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad."

Philosophy, Moderation, Life, Balance, Reflection

"I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humblesurroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war--inall the exalted elements of romance."

Destiny, Life, Journey, Passion

"In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men."

Wisdom, Virtue, Reform, Knowledge, Beauty

"Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:The horror! The horror!"

Literature, Power, Despair, Observation, Emotion

"Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar."

Psychology, Humanity, Emotion, Observation, Connection

"I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral."

Humor, Critique, Opinion, Observation, Irony