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"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
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"Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority."
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"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
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"God placed us on earth to be kings and priests."
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"The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious."
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"Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest."
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"I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey."
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"As artists, we are eternally heartbroken."
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"I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it."
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"I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!"
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
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"Who grins in official circumstances?"
Social
"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
Mind
"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."
Poetry
"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
Dream
"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece."
Life
"Light in comparison with darkness is a void."
Philosophy
"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
Authority
"When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor."
Memory
"Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities."
Writing
"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."
Imagination
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