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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.
The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.
