“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
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