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Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

— Arthur Symons The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

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My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

Opals (1896)

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899)

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Here in a little lonely room
I am master of earth and sea,
And the planets come to me.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

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Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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