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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives


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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.



The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.



Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?



Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?



On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.



Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?



The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds



Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.



Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.



History is a novel for which the people is the author.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.





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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.



When you are not sure what to do now just keep doing what God told you to do last!

When you are not sure what to do now just keep doing what God told you to do last!



. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.



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One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.



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