“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.””
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite”
“Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall”
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances”
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance”
“The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.”
“The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation”
“Leap, and the net will appear”
“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth”