Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. Old Curiosity Shop
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
In short, if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art. Three Guineas
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
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