The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.


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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo...
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s...
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is...
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc...
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio...
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
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I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
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And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
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Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
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And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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