"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."
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"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."
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"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."
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"Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites."
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"I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it"
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"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
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"Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art."
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"In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect."
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"On top of the world, or in the depths of despair."
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"Words express neither objects nor ourselves."
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"For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty."
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"What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours."
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"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."
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"Dispel not, the happy delusions of children."
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"Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly."
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"Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?"
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"It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions."
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"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."
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"I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity."
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"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."
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