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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Willa Cather The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mark Twain A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles McCabe Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Albert Camus A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Aristotle All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • André Malraux Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Audre Lorde Art is not living. It is the use of living.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • William Shakespeare Art made tongue-tied by authority.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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