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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."

"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."

"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."

"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."

"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."

"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."

"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
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"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."

"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things."

"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."

"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it."

"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."

"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."

"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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