“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
― The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
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“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
“The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.”
― A Criminal History of Mankind
― A Criminal History of Mankind
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