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All true language is incomprehensible,
Like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to...
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will...
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time...
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of...
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything --gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness...
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of...
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no...
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond...
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
Source: Paradise Regained, Bk....
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current.
Source:...
Long is the way
and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Source: Paradise...
My race of glory run, and race of shame,
And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Source: Paradise Regained, Bk iv....
A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about...
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all...
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
Source: In
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
Source: Lycidas, 78.
-- John Milton,...