"Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose."

-- Julia Marlowe

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“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”
“If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.”
“I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.”
“Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.”
“Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree”

Source : "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.
“French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.”

Source : Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.21, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.”
“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”

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