All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgment of time.
All that you can imagine you already know.
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
Poetry cannot take sides except with life.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.
The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.
There is a certain justice in criticism.
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.
Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.
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