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“For we live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; and our time should be counted in the throbs of our hearts as we love and help, learn and strive, and make from our talents whatever can increase the stock of the world’s good.”

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“I don’t understand,’ said the boy. ‘I thought aesthetic decisions could be completely immoral. What about the cliché of the artist who leaves his wife and children so he can paint? Or Nero playing the harp while Rome burned?’ ‘Both were moral decisions. Both served a higher good, in the mind of the artist. The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But often this isn’t understood; and here comes the waste, the tragedy. An artist, stealing paints from a store, for example, imagines himself to have made an inevitable but immoral decision, and then he sees himself as fallen from grace; what follows is despair and petty irresponsibility, as if morality were a great glass world which can be utterly shattered by one act. But this was not my great concern then. I did not know these things then. I believed I killed animals for aesthetic reasons only, and I hedged against the great moral question of whether or not by my very nature I was damned.”

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“الحياة المعاصرة، آخ كم اكره هذه الكلمة، الملابس المعاصرة، الكلمات المعاصرة، الأساليب المعاصرة، الفن المعاصر، أنا كائن غير معاصر، لا فضيلة في أن أكون معاصرًا، معاصر اليوم لن يصبح معاصر الغد، ومعاصرُ الأمس ليس معاصر اليوم، لا أريد أن أقضي حياتي في مطاردة المعاصرة، اوه والأخلاق المعاصرة أيضًا، الذين يمتلكون الأخلاق المعاصرة اليوم هل سيتحولون إلى لا أخلاقيين في المستقبل لأن أخلاقهم لم تعد معاصرة ؟”

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