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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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...

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...

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of...

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and 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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

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.

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 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...

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

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

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

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...

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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...