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"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"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."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."
"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
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