Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.Kenneth Clark
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Kenneth Clark
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
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