There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.
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Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, supreme chief of the German armed forces, explained the thinking behind the Nazis' Night and Fog ... Efficient and enduring intimidation can only be achieved... by measures by which the relatives of the criminals do not know the fate of the criminals... These measures will have a deterrent effect because the prisoners will vanish without a trace and no information may be given as to their whereabouts or their fate.
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A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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