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Quote by Aubrey Beardsley

“I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”

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Aubrey Beardsley was an English artist and illustrator, recognized for his distinctive, stylized drawings and his role in the Aesthetic Movement. Born on August 21, 1872, and dying on March 16, 1898, Beardsley's work was marked by its elegance, intricate designs, and a sense of decadence that would later inspire Art Nouveau. more

“The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.”

Source: How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day

“If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.”

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

“The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.”

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Book:How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

“You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.”

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Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

“Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)

“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

Intellectual Cynicism Dandyism

Author:George Meredith

“A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .”