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“For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.”
“Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.”
“To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.”
“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.”
“The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.”
“When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.”
“One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.”
“It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.”
“People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.”
“Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.”
“Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.”
“In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.”
“He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.”
“A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.”
“Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.”
“Now I deny most energetically that anything is, or can be, uninteresting.”
“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”