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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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