“ Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. ”
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“ Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. ”
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“ The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ”
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“ A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ”
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“ Timelessness — in the sense of time never ending, never beginning — is a stagnant nothing. ”
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“ To man, time is given like a piece of land, as it were, entrusted to him for faithful tilling; a space in which to strive incessantly, achieve self-realization, move onward and upward. ”
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“ Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ”
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“ Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pentup curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge. ”
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“ Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pentup curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge. ”
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“ Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. ”
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“ Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pentup curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge. ”
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“ He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. ”
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“ Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! ”
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“ Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. ”
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“ A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ”
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“ No, not of course at all—it is really all hocuspocus. The days lengthen in the wintertime, and when the longest comes, the twentyfirst of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go downhill again, toward winter. You call that ‘of course’; but if one once loses hold of the fact that it is of course, it is quite frightening, you feel like hanging on to something. It seems like a practical joke—that spring begins at the beginning of winter, and autumn at the beginning of summer. You feel you’re being fooled, led about in a circle, with your eye fixed on something that turns out to be a moving point. A moving point in a circle. For the circle consists of nothing but such transitional points without any extent whatever; the curvature is incommensurable, there is no duration of motion, and eternity turns out to be not ‘straight ahead’ but ‘merrygoround’! ”
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“ The diaries of opiumeaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dreams have a temporal scope of ten, thirty, sometimes sixty years or even surpass all limits of man's ability to experience timedreams, that is, whose imaginary time span vastly exceeds their actual duration and which are characterized by an incredible diminishment of the experience of time, with images thronging past so swiftly that, as one hashishsmoke puts it, the intoxicated user's brain seems "to have something removed, like the mainspring from a broken watch. ”
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“ And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid stimulation of the immaterial? The first step toward evil, toward desire and death, was taken precisely then, when there took place that first increase in the density of the spiritual, that pathologically luxuriant morbid growth, produced by the irritant of some unknown infiltration; this, in part pleasurable, in part a motion of selfdefense, was the primeval stage of matter, the transition from the insubstantial to the substance. This was the Fall. ”
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“ Le peuple savait depuis longtemps où chercher, ailleurs que dans ces pénitenciers officiels, la culture et l'éducation dont il avait besoin dans sa lutte contre le règne vermoulu de la bourgeoisie, et les moineaux sifflaient sur les toits que notre type d'école, tel qu'il est issu de l'école monastique du Moyen Âge, constituait un anachronisme et une vieillerie ridicule, que personne au monde ne devait plus sa culture proprement dite à l'école, et qu'un enseignement libre et accessible à tous par des conférences publiques, par des expositions et par le cinéma était infiniment supérieur à tout enseignement scolaire. ”
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“ Le peuple savait depuis longtemps où chercher, ailleurs que dans ces pénitenciers officiels, la culture et l'éducation dont il avait besoin dans sa lutte contre le règne vermoulu de la bourgeoisie, et les moineaux sifflaient sur les toits que notre type d'école, tel qu'il est issu de l'école monastique du Moyen Âge, constituait un anachronisme et une vieillerie ridicule, que personne au monde ne devait plus sa culture proprement dite à l'école, et qu'un enseignement libre et accessible à tous par des conférences publiques, par des expositions et par le cinéma était infiniment supérieur à tout enseignement scolaire. ”
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“ Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. ”
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“ Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden. ”
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“ You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown. ”
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