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“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare -- where others lack the courage-- to plunge again into the elemental.”
― Doctor Faustus
― Doctor Faustus
“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”
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“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
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