The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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