The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

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