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Art is the objectification of feeling.

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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Truth is in things, and not in words.

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

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There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

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He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 1st, 1819

Died: September 28th, 1891

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