There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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