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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

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

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

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

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

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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

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

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

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

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited,...

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited,...

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited,...

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited,...