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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.