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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

William Morris

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
Strikingly
Excuse
Design
Beautiful
Anything

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Give me love and work - these two only.
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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Yea, I have looked, and seen November there The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?
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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
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Don't think too much of style.
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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