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- It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around: sex is but the ancilla of art.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They've got nothing to do with one another. You hear of men painting pot-boilers to keep an aged mother - well, it shows they're excellent sons, but it's no excuse for bad work. They're only tradesmen. An artist would let his mother go to the workhouse.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge")
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- My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ...I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only immortality that you and I may share, my Lolita.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Hitchhiking is not a sport. It is not an art. It certainly isn't work, for it requires no particular ability not does it produce anything of value. It's an adventure, I suppose, but a shallow ignoble adventure.
(Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
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- I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- She is well protected in the art of losing herself.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
(Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame")
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