The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls".
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Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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