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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
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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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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
— Voltaire
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I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and…
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Belief is a deception you play upon yourself....
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If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do…
— John Milton
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Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized.
— Stuart Holden
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I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and…
— Themistocles
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
— Kate DiCamillo
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But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of…
— Walter Pater
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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified…
— Henry A. Wallace
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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments…
— Roger Zelazny
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I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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