Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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