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“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”

E. M. Forster · Art

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E. M. Forster

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Art

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Experience

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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Courage