Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

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"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."

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"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."

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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

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"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."

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"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."

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