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A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
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Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
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