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• Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
• Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the…
• The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
• Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
• A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
• We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
• There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and…
• In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit…
• I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
• Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
• When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea…

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