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“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul . . . To recognize it, you must repeat the adventure of the artist.”
― SOMERSET MAUGHAM

“That thing is called free, which exists solely by the necessity of its own nature, and of which the action is determined by itself alone. On the other hand, that thing is necessary, or rather constrained, which is determined by something external to itself to a fixed and definite method of existence or action.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“To teach with kindly benevolence, not to lose one's temper and avenge the unreasonableness of others, that is the virile energy of the South that is followed by the well-bred man. To sleep on a heap of arms and untanned skins, to die unflinching and as if dying were not enough, that is the virile energy of the North that is followed by the brave man.”
― Zisi, The Doctrine Of The Mean

“The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics