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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art`s aim.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
There is a danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.