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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Age: 64 †
Born: 1893
Born: June 13
Died: 1957
Died: December 17
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
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The young were always theoretical only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
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God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.
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The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
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