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I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my ...more

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As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

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My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the...more

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A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his ...more

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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take m...more

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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for...more

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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet...more

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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, conti...more

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Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the struggle has got, with the animals not too far be...more