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

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

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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...

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

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

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

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...

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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

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

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

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

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

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

That intelligent creatures exist in outerspace is proven by the fact that they have not...

That intelligent creatures exist in outerspace is proven by the fact that they have not...

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts...

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts...

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.