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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

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.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

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.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It could become much worse.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

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.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Everything is politics.

Speech is civilization itself.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

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