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" It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. "

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" 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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" No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. "

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

" The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself. "

" Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. "

" Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. "

" The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. "

" 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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" Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. "

" Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. "

" The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. "

" The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. "

" There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. "

" The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. "

" I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. "

" The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. "

" The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. "

" When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. "

" Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. "

" 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. "

" One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. "

" There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. "

" An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. "

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

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

" One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. "

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

" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "

" If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. "