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• Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
• Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world…
• What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
• In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to…
• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
• The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
• Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
• A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all…
• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with…

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