"An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains" — Anton Chekhov

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

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