"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."

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Source : George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

George Henry Lewes

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“As an actress I take roles I find interesting.”
“The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?”
“The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.”
“He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.”
“None of us can choose where we shall love...”
“There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.”

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