“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.”
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“...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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