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• When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
• The bird was unafraid when you entered, but as you approach it becomes disturbed and you cannot catch it.
• Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
  The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....
• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization.
  When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying....
• A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tires.
• Quote #238 "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
  -- Gustave Flaubert, 1858...
• When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik.
  And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik....
• When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytto