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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test

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