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
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. Parerga and Paralipomena
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. Hamlet
Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth. Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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