"Pretty Stones."

Metaphor, Art, Beauty, Simplicity, Perception

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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Nature

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

Dream

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War

"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."

Mind

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

Body

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

Man

"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."

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