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/ page 223 of 1205 /If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
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In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
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I will not add another word.
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
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If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
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Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connois...
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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already b...
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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But when all you do, great man, is to empty our pockets, we wish that you were smaller!
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A love that dies has never lived.
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Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
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Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
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Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.
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Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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