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"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."

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"Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!"

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"He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window."

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"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme."

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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

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"In art economy is always beauty."

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