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“The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.” quote by Arthur Symons — Download Open image

“The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.”

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A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

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My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a…

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The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

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Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

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God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

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Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

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The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

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I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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