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[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frighten...more

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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will g...more

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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and th...more

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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to...more

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Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite dif...more

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The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions m...more

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The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an...more

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How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If the hare has seven skins, man can cast from him se...more

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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.