The rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable. Discourses
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. The Critic as Artist
Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. The painting of Gustave Moreau is the painting of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom, Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys. Ulysses
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Oliver Twist
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