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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

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Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

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