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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

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Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

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At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.

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What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

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If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

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Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

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Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

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Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

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Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

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The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

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