"The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man."

-- James Whistler

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“There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.”
“Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 07, 2012
“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.”

Source : "The War with Hannibal". Book by Titus Livius, Book XXI, 1965.
“Of course it's all luck.”
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.”
“I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.”

Source : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”
“Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!”

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