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“You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?”
“The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.”
“Less is more, in prose as in architecture.”
“History after all is the true poetry.”
“Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.”
“When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.”
“What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?”
“Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.”
“Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.”
“The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.”
“I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.”
“There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.”
“Life is a loom, weaving illusion.”
“The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.”
“Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.”
“Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.”
“History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”
“All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.”
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”