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"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"I see my life in terms of music."
"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee."
"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests."
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"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come."
"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
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