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Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.: Nicholas Boileau
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.: Klopstock
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.: Marcel Duchamp
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in "The Dancing Men"
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.: Richard Bach
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.: Chinese proverb
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

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