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I don’t believe any work of art can escape the label “self-vindication.” For man’s life is his attempt at vindicating himself. For the life of each and every living creature is a self-vindication.
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― Vita Sexualis
― Vita Sexualis
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To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What
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― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human