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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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"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Life
"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Art
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Dream
"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
Religion
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."
Change
"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
Language
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Man
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