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“Applause is the beginning of abuse”
― Ted Hughes

“I dwell in possibility…”
― Emily Dickinson

“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.”
― Socrates

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
― Andrew Schweitzer

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“...when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”
― E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone…”
― May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude