The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
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