Durch / Through Erfahrung / Experience Ersatz / Substitute Kunst / Art Literatur / Literature Sohle, einzig, alleinig / Sole Uns selbst / Ourselves Welche / Which Wohnte / Lived
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.
