Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
propaganda
Saintliness is also a temptation.
temptation
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
agedeathman
God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
historytso-life
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
tso-art
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God
beauty
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence
creativityintelligence
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
excesspoverty
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
ordertso-life
I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!
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