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" If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. "

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" Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. "

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" Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. "

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" Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. "

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" It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. "

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" It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. "

" The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. "

" Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. "

" If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more. "

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" All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. "

" What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. "

" The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. "

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