"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.“
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
-Steve Martin
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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