Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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