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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step read more
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Search then the ruling passion; there alone,
The wild are constant, and the cunning known;
The fool read more
Search then the ruling passion; there alone,
The wild are constant, and the cunning known;
The fool consistent, and the false sincere;
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; read more
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel
force,
Something better than his dog, read more
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel
force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.