Public Republic

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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.


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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

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Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

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Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.