Quote #26
Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
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- Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
- People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to coun…
- It is always the unreadable that occurs.
- I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
- His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.
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- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.