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

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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

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,...

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

Hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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.

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...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

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

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

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history...

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history...

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.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

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

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

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...