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"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."
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"Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back."
"Let go of what was and embrace what to be."
"...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited."
"You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
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"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."
"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
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