“The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.”
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
