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 Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.  The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still. Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written. It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences. Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen. It was enough just to sit there without words. Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn. Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. - Plato The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile. In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. 
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