"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."

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Source : "Appreciations With An Essay On Style". Book by Walter Pater, 1889.

Walter Hagen

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“The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.”
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“Do you realize itâ€™s been only a century that weâ€™ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasnâ€™t been much longer than that weâ€™ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that weâ€™ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.”
“It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.”

Source : Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.96
“In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.”
“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”
“There was always a piano around the house and I've got other brothers and sisters but I'm the youngest, and none of them ever wanted to play it. So I guess I was the only one that was gonna end up playing it, if it was one of us.”
“But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.”

Source : Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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