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‘Thus he who acts loves his deed infinitely more than it deserves to be loved: and the finest deeds take place in such a superabundance of love that, even if their worth were incalculable in other respects, they must still be unworthy of this love.’
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‘Perish in pursuit of this and only this – I know of no better aim of life than that of perishing, animae magnae prodigus, in pursuit of the great and the impossible.’
okay aurafarm
— 14 hours, 56 min ago
okay aurafarm
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take a shot every time he introduces another random metaphor and you WILL get alcohol poisoning
— 15 hours, 54 min ago
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‘On the other hand, their instincts tell them that art can be slain by art: the monumental is never to be repeated, and to make sure it is not they invoke the authority which the monumental derives from the past.’
oooooo very interesting analysis
— 17 hours, 28 min ago
oooooo very interesting analysis
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‘Man, on the other hand, braces himself against the great and ever greater pressure of what is past: it pushes him down or bends him sideways, it encumbers his steps as a dark, invisible burden which he can sometimes appear to disown and which in traffic with his fellow man he is only too glad to disown, so as to excite their envy.’
— 17 hours, 55 min ago
