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“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
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“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.”
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.”
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