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I skimmed through this for my thesis, so this review is only relevant for those who are interested in the relevance of this to the notion of aesthetics within the literary academy.I think that it was useful in some ways: an overarching framework that ...more "
“You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous.”
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“I believe that the infinite and mysterious charm that lies in the contemplation of a moving vessel is caused, firstly, by the regularity and symmetry that are among the primordial needs of the human spirit, to the same degree as complication and harmony - and, secondly, by the multiplication and generation of all the imaginary curves and figures produced in space by the real elements of the object. The poetic idea released by this operation of movement in the lines is the hypothesis of a being that is vast, immense, complicated but eurythmic, an animal full of genius, suffering and sighing all the sighs and all the human ambitions.”
― My Heart Laid Bare: Intimate diaries with 30 illustrations
― My Heart Laid Bare: Intimate diaries with 30 illustrations
“Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.”
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“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”
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“Seen with the terrestrially sullied eye, we are in a situation of travelers in a train that has met with an accident in a tunnel, and this at a place where the light of the beginning can no longer be seen, and the light of the end is so very small a glimmer that the gaze must continually search for it and is always losing it again, and, furthermore, both the beginning and the end are not even certainties. Round about us, however, in the confusion of our senses, or in the supersensitiveness of our senses, we have nothing but monstrosities and a kaleidoscopic play of things that is either delightful or exhausting according to the mood and injury of each individual. What shall I do? or: Why should I do it? are not questions to be asked in such places.”
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
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