“To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.”
Quote by Anais Nin
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“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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