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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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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,...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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.

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...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

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...