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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

George Henry Lewes

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George Henry Lewes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1817
Born: April 18
Died: 1878
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Theatre Critic
Writer
London
England
Primarily
Insight
Literature
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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
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The artist is called a creator.
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To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
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There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
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The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
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I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
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In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
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Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.
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Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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