“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.”
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
