Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.William Maugham
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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A pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not last forever
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