All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved.

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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

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