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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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Artist
Devil
Familiar
Good Work
Making Money
Notion
Popular Song
Retiring
Traps
Work Good Money
Popular
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Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.
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Flower
Ignorance
Weed
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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Life
Abyss
Bottom
Information
Mind
Oblivion
Pouring
Vacancy
Life Mind My Life
All My Life
Loads
Van
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It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
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Dread
Dying
Flicker
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But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
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Men
Animal
Political
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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Achieve
Aim
Enjoy
Mankind
Two
Want
Wisest
Things
After
Get
Only
You
First
Second
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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Happiness
Happy
Inspiring
Intelligence
Life
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An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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Echoes
Hair
Moon
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To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
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Behave
Sober
All Day
Suppose
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
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Nice
Reading
Selfish
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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
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Behind My Back
Gossip
Vanity
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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Nature
Phrases
Pursuit
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I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.
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Funny
Humor
Science
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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
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Kind
Years
Youth
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
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Grows
Mirrors
People
Self
Life People Feel
Bright
Faint
Flourish
Mirror
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We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
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Friendship
Needs
New Friends
Old Friends
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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Life
Piano
Stars
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But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
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Death
Stars
Writing
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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
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Quality
Adjectives
Certain
Views
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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Gay
Wings
Writing
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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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Facts
Names
Suits
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What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.
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Forever
Soul
Wind
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