God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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