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"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
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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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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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