"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
-John Updike
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"Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.“
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"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
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"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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"We are most alive when we're in love."
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"Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them."
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"Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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