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Art only begins where imitation ends.

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

“Nothing is more rare in any man,” says Emerson, “than an act of his own.”

And as for what I have said in this letter, that thé gods are strange, and Punic sh is for what is good and humane in us as much as for what is evil and perverse, I must accept the fact that one of punished for the good as well as for the evil that one does.

Thé supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realized is right.