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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloqu

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag

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The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. – Edward Hopper

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. – Edgar Allan Poe

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