“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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.
