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“The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.”
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
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“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“Education in those rulers' virtues that master even one's benevolence and pity: the great educator's virtues . . . the affect of the creator must be elevated – no longer to work on marble! – The exceptional situation and powerful position of those beings . . . The Roman Caesar with Christ's Soul.”
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