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“But in so far as the subject is an artist, he is already liberated from his individual will and has become a medium through which the only truly existent subject celebrates his redemption through illusion.”
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“An ethical deity, demands moderation from his followers and, in order to maintain it, self-knowledge. And thus the admonitions 'Know thyself and "Nothing to excess!' coexist with the aesthetic necessity of beauty, while hubris and excess are considered the truly hostile spirits of the non-Apolline realm.”
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Daniel
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“The beautiful illusion of the dream worlds, in the creation of which every man is a consummate artist, is the precondition of all visual art, and indeed, as we shall see, of an important amount of poetry.”
— Jul 10, 2026 04:23AM
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“I had always sensed hostility to life, a furious, vindictive distaste for life itself: for all life is
based on appearance, art, deception, point of view, the necessity of perspective and error.”
— Jul 09, 2026 11:04PM
based on appearance, art, deception, point of view, the necessity of perspective and error.”