“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
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“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
― Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
― Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
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