"Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page."

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"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

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"That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great."

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"Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine."

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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

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"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

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"Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."

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"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

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"Where there is great love there are always miracles."

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