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A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. - [Art] All sins are attempts to fill voids. - [Sin] Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. - [Culture] Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - [Compassion] Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. - [Evil] Humility is attentive patience. - [Humility] I can, therefore I am. - [Existence] Imaginary evil is romantic and varied, full of charm; imaginary good is tiresome and flat. Real evil, however, is drear, monotonous, barren. Real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. - [Evil] Pain is the root of knowledge. - [Pain] The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. - [Poets] Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty. - Gravity and Grace [Evil]
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