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Art is the accomplice of love.
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
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The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
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Thinking is hard work. One can’t bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
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Two elements are needed to form a truth – a fact and an abstraction.
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
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Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
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Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters’s pearl.
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