Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing one's sensations.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing to find honest men to publish it and to find sensible men to read it.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Grammatically should of is a predatory admonition, as such it is always used as part of a herpetological phrase.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

The chief problem about death incidentally is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

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