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"For beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm."

The English Renaissance of Art (lecture, 1882)
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  • "For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it."
  • "For he who does not love art in all things does not love it at all, and he who does not need art in all things does not need it at all."
  • "We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in art."
  • "Love art for its own sake, and then all things that you need will be added to you."
  • "For to disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt."
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