Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

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

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

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

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

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

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...

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

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

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

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

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,...

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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

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

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

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.

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

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