The truth is that the ...

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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 Logan Pearsall Smith

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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
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But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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