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"There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us."
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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"I see my life in terms of music."
"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee."
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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
"There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration."
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"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."
"If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing."
"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
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