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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. (George Henry Lewes)
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. View quote
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Good writers are of necessity rare. View quote
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. View quote
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All great authors are seers. View quote
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All good Literature rests primarily on insight. View quote
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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. View quote
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The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. View quote
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As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. View quote
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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving. View quote
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Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination. (George Henry Lewes)
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. View quote
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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. View quote
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. View quote
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Sincerity is moral truth. View quote
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Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. View quote
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The public can only be really moved by what is genuine. View quote
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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. View quote
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. View quote
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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. View quote
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There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. (George Henry Lewes)
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. View quote
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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet. View quote
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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. View quote
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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. View quote
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