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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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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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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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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
Life
"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
Age
"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."
Age
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
Humor
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
Circumstance
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
Life
"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
Love
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
Truth
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
Man
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
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