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“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”
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“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
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“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
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