“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.” Seagull
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. The Fellowship of the Ring
Let an understanding man imagine human nature originally produced without the sense of sight, and consider what ignorance and trouble such a defect would bring upon him, what a darkness and blindness in the soul; he will then see by that of how great importance to the knowledge of truth would be the privation of such another sense, or of two or three, should we be so deprived. Essays
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. The Critic as Artist
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