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“The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.”
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“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”
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“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
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“Those are nearer to reality who can deal with it light-heartedly, because they know it to be inexhaustible.”
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“There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.”
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