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Source: Promenades of an Impressionist
“Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.”
Source: Painted Veils
“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
“Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.”
“We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.”
Source: Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw
“All men of action are dreamers.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
“Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.”
“Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.”
Source: Chopin
“There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!”
“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments