From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type.

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.

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It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.

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To set up a theory that lacks a source of truth is an excellent example of blind assurance.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf.

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