No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. The Decay of Lying
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. Twilight of the Idols
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Essays and Aphorisms
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