The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
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Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
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