"What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover."

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“All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.”

“Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.”

“Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.”

“The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.”

“My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.”

“He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.”

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"The New World Alliance is a conscious attempt to create a national political movement based on values that have traditionally stood outside politics. NWA is the brainchild of Mark Satin. ... When Sati…"

— Mark Satin

Politics1946

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"Any satisfactory reproduction of the Conics must fulfil certain essential conditions: it should be Apollonius and nothing but Apollonius, and nothing should be altered either in the substance or in th…"

— Thomas Little Heath

Mathematics1861–1940

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"’T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad."

— George Farquhar

Military1857–1927

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"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

— Charles Bukowski

Literature1920–1994

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