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"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." »Michel de Montaigne
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"The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely." »Oscar Wilde, Foreward, The Picture of Dorian gray
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"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." »Elizabeth Drew
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"I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely." »Andrew Soloman, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond
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"A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand." »Ezra Pound
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"Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past." »Dean Koontz
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." »Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." »Oscar Wilde
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