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- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
- Mastery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is uttered is finished and done with.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
- Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could become much worse.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
- Quite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Nov 07, 2020
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
- Eros
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- Nov 07, 2020
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is politics.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speech is civilization itself.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
- Begets
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020