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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. – William Morris

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Art
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. – William Morris

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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. – William Morris

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Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows youre scared to death. – Earl Wilson

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Art

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. – Paul Klee

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Art

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much — if he lives and uses that in hand day by day — shall be full to running over. – Edgar Cayce

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. – Pearl S. Buck

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. – Buddha

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