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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues...more

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No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

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For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

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Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the gen...more

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It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could be put off for a time-- what nonsense! ...more

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It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don'...more

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have...more