"The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves."
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"Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?"
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"Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine."
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"Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!"
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"Art is the expression of an enormous preference."
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"I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum."
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"To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease."
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"Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence."
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"For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise."
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"The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time."
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"If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable."
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"Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph."
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"Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion."
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"Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war."
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"Life is art's rival and vice versa."
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"Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory."
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"Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias."
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"We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace."
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"Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away."
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"People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account."
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