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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

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In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 2nd, 1859

Died: July 8th, 1939

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