Gerhardus Van Wilgen
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“Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est notre vénération devant ce qui a été déjà fait, si beau et si valable que ce soit, qui nous pétrifie, qui nous stabilise et nous empêche de prendre contact avec la force qui est dessous, que l'on appelle l'énergie pensante, la force vitale, le déterminisme des échanges, les menstrues de la lune ou tout ce qu'on voudra.”
― The Theater and Its Double
― The Theater and Its Double
“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
― My Life In Art
― My Life In Art
“Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by what one doesn’t notice or feel compassion for; that what you don’t know and don’t make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of.”
― Outline
― Outline
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
― Essence of Christianity
― Essence of Christianity
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