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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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