History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
タグ: art-and-the-artist

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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
タグ: recovery, inspirational, illness, healing, cures, cure, chronic-illness
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
タグ: man, heart, hope, life, love
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
タグ: belief, evil, men, alone
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
タグ: imagination, truth, art, life
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
タグ: wonder, fear, you, heart
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