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“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a feeling.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Tragedy is to be regarded, and is recognised as the summit of poetical art, both on account of the greatness of its effect and the difficulty of its achievement.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Joy is not in things; it is in us”
― Richard Wagner

“Imagination creates reality.”
― Richard Wagner

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner

“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power