So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.William Morris
Were broken, once for all what striving could
Make me love anything in earth or heaven?
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He did not die in the night, He did not die in the day, But in the morning twilight His spirit passed away.
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He is just what you know, O Galahad,
This love is happy even as you say,
But would you for a little time be glad,
To make ME sorry long, day after day?
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I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.
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So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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