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Democracy
“The flag goes with the foul landscape, and our jargon muffles the drum…
Farewell here, no matter where. Conscripts of good will, ours will be a ferocious philosophy; ignorant as to science, rabid for comfort; and let the rest of the world croak. This is the real advance. Marching orders, let’s go!”

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“Magic flowers droned. The slopes cradled him. Beasts of fabulous elegance moved about. The clouds gathered over the high sea, formed of an eternity of hot tears.”

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

“She likes to cut things up, to scrub and have things tidy, and to call things what they are.”

“This eternal art will have its function since poets are citizens. Poetry will no longer accompany action but will lead it.”

“I witness the birth of my thought: I look at it, I listen to it: I give a stroke of the bow: the symphony begins to stir in the depths or comes bursting onto the stage.”

…for work

“Whatever you want the most, it’s going to be the worst thing for you.”

I care. I don’t care. I care. In that gap the effort is being made. And in that effort, but not its outcome, is the creative act and where lies life.

Dude’s good.

Is he in love w a bike

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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

“… mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.”

“…in which direction does one run from lightning?”