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Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

I am the family face;

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Where ignorance is bliss,

Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene,

If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon

The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent ‘mechanics of culture’, ‘engineers of the soul’.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

The very pink of perfection.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn?

Die Wahlverwandtschaften.

Die Wahlverwandtschaften.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

In art the best is good enough.

Just trust yourself and you’ll learn the art of living.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt