The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
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Art is an absolute mistress she will not be coquetted with or slighted she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim
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