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.

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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...

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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...

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.

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.

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...

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended...

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended...

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.