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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nation...more

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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forci...more

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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final...more

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

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Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!

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Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair o...more

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On revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "On ne revient jamais a son premier amour." But as ...more

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She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been. Men were...more