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“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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“Prison life makes one see people and things as they really are. That is why it turns one to stone. It is the people outside who are deceived by the illusion of a life in constant motion.
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“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

“To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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“The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.
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“Why should they [the poor] be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it.”

“Every single work of art is the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
… all great ideas are dangerous.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. (On absinthe)
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“In England, the arts that have escaped best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.”

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.”

“One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

“Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”

“For what is Truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one’s last mood.
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth”

“life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. One is always wounded when one approaches it. Things last either too long or not long enough.
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“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognizance … It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.”

“To become a work of art is the object of living.”

“The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.”

“Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life … Life holds the mirror up to Art, and either reproduces some strange type imagined by painter or sculptor, or realizes in fact what has been dreamed in fiction.”

“Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.”

“… it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.”

“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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Carte frumoasă cinste cui te-a scris
Incet gandita, gingas cumpanita;
Esti ca o floare, anume inflorita
Mainilor mele, care te-au deschis.

Esti ca vioara, singura ce canta
lubirea toata pe un fir de par,
Si paginile tale, adevar,
S-au tiparit cu litera cea sfanta.

Un om de sange ia din pisc noroi
Si zamliseste marea lui fantoma
De reverie, umbra si aroma,
Si o pogoara vie printre noi.

Carte frumoasă cinste cui te-a scris
Incet gandita, gingas cumpanita;
Esti ca o floare, anume inflorita
Mainilor mele, care te-au deschis.

Esti ca vioara, singura ce canta
lubirea toata pe un fir de par,
Si paginile tale, adevar,
S-au tiparit cu litera cea sfanta.

Un om de sange ia din pisc noroi
Si zamliseste marea lui fantoma
De reverie, umbra si aroma,
Si o pogoara vie printre noi.

miss reading a truly whimsical book that sends me into a coma, straight to the world that is described 🥲WHERE IS THE ENCHANTING WRITING AND WHY ARE THERE NO RECOMMENDATIONS