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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity

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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

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In art the best is good enough. Art

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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Art

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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

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We cannot shape our children according to our ideas, We must keep and love them as God gave them to us.

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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruining their craft.

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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

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What matters in art is not thinking but making.

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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

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I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

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It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light.

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It is true I have not been killed or crippled, been a loser in the stocks, or had to forswear my fatherland, but I have not quite gone free and have a right to say something.

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