Quote #300
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. (see also: Truth & Lies)
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Salvation would not be a question of accepting a creed, but of acquiring insight.
- When you strike at a King, you must kill him.