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- The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
- The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection…
- I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
- Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
- I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of…
- We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship…
- I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
- The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
- The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
- I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
- I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world.…
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world…
- Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual…
- There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into…
- Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend…
- I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a…
- The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent…
- The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses…
- I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
- I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the…
- His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
- Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle