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"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute...  
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.  
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volc...  
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holdin...   Life
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the ar...  
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?  
Every artist writes his own autobiography.   Art
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must alway...  
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicia...  
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all a...  
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for ...  
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared ...  
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping i...  
Man lives by imagination.  
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the thresho...  
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itse...  
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life...  
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.  
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines w...  
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.  
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civil...  
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.  
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.  
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had...   Nature
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase pe...  
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better a...  
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its...  
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.  
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal countr...  
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.  
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuis...