This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature … - William Ernest Henley

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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

William Ernest Henley

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

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Life - life - let there be life!

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Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

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Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

Common, Compelling, Men, Mind, Quickening, Rembrandt

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

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Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

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Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness.

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Neil Gaiman

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

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Arnold Bennett

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Sam Harris

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

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Anne Lamott

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

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