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Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
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Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
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As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
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Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
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