Absolute suffering is the means to absolute beauty
“The beautiful and imperishable comes into existence due to the suffering of individual perishable creatures who themselves are not beautiful, and must be reshaped to […]
“The beautiful and imperishable comes into existence due to the suffering of individual perishable creatures who themselves are not beautiful, and must be reshaped to […]
“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,The dark threw its patches down upon me also,The best I had done seem’d to me […]
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal […] they are normal only in […]
“Let the youthful soul look back on life with the question: what have you truly loved up to now, what has elevated your soul, what […]
“[Herman] Hesse’s pre-1917 heroes [in his novels] are made of soft stuff. They are predominantly esthetes who live only in dreams, hopes and anticipation, and […]
What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, […]
We are all deprived; we are all disappointed; and therefore we are all, in some sense idealists. The need to link the real and the […]
“In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that there will be no […]
Indeed, when human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial? Would commodities on the market, if they could speak, not […]
The “realists” believe, of those who strive for kindness, that these latter mean well but that they are ingenuous, full of illusions—briefly, fools. And they […]
A philosopher, which is what I am supposed to be, is a sort of intellectual yokel who gapes and stares at what sensible people take […]
I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one’s while to buy them. […]
“I have been photographing the United States trying by investigating photographically to learn who we are and how we feel, but seeing what we look […]
It is very important for the artist to gauge his position aright, to realize that he has a duty to his art and to himself, […]
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