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Quote by Aldous Huxley
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. – Aldous Huxley

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley

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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. – Mason Cooley

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What is art but a way of seeing? – Saul Bellow

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