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Quote by Henry Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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Politics
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams

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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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…Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. – Isaac Newton

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