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“Malice, my dear sir, is the animating spirit of criticism, and criticism is the beginning of progress and enlightenment.”
— Apr 22, 2026 08:50PM
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“And what, finally, he felt, understood and enjoyed, sitting there with folded hands, looking into the black slats of the jalousies whence it all issued, was the triumphant idealism of the music, of art, of the human spirit: the high and irrefregable power they had of shrouding with a veil of beauty the vulgar horror of actual fact.”
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“Feeling, young man, is godlike. Man is godlike in that he feels. He is the feeling of God. God created him in order to feel through him.”
^Sounds like the affirmation of the will to me!
— Jun 17, 2026 06:05PM
^Sounds like the affirmation of the will to me!
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“Music quickens time. She quickens us to the finest enjoyment of time. She quickens, and insofar, she has moral value. Art has moral value insofar as it quickens. But what if it does the opposite? What if it dulls us, sends us to sleep, works against action and progress? . . . There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is by her nature equivocal.”
— May 04, 2026 07:10PM
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A couple more: “With a good cigar in his mouth, a man is perfectly safe. Nothing can touch him. Literally, it’s just like lying on the beach. When you lie on the beach, why, you lie on the beach, don’t you? You don’t require anything else in the line of work or amusement either.”
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And “For, of course, a thing like the pneumothorax brings people together.” “Sometimes I think being ill and dying aren’t serious at all, just a sort of loafing about and wasting time.”
