“Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.”
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
