“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
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I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.
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.'
We loved with a love that was more than love.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.