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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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"History develops, art stands still."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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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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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
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"Music heals all forms of misery."
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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
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"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."
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"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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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
People
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
Appearance
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Art
"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
Art
"I write books to find out about things."
Books
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
Knowledge
"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
History
"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
Power
"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."
Life
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
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