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"We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance."
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"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."

"The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail. But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."

"The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness."

"Let music ignite your vivid inner colors and bring you harmony inside and out."

"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

"The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer."

"A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art."
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"They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"


"Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie."


"Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing."


"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."


"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."


"He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think."
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