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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons

The past is what man should not have been, the present is what man ought not to be, the future is what artists are

state is to make useful, man to make beautiful.

I'm quite fascinated by this political essay, I was not expecting this hedonistic socialism

My favourite sentences in all philosophy:

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholic.

One does not see anything until they see its beauty

I want to see the sunset and what was it? It was simply a second rate Turner

It's fortunate that nature is so imperfect, otherwise we would have no art.

I love this essay so much

It sometimes happens in a premier in London that the least interesting part is the play