"Only youth has a taste of immortality."
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"Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death."
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"This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."
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"The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism."
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"I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?"
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"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth."
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"Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste."
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"I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am."
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"Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken."
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"Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent."
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"Although I love the taste of Nutrageous bars, I am nutraged at their new, high price."
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"Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts."
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"Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?"
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"There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all."
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"Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment."
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"Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste."
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"Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself."
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"As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life."
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"I know how to be sour. I know that taste."
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"For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written."
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