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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.


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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.



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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.



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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.



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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.



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