People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.
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One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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