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"It's not a coincidence that transcendent modern German artist and thinkers, Novalis, Mann, Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, etc. were great admirers of Greco-Roman classicism, in some cases yearning for the idealized south."
"The tragedy of the lonely male, plagued by his fate and forever doomed with unrequited love, is nothing new. In fact, this book became so popular that it sparked a frenzy within it's lonely and suicidal fanbase. I recommend the Penguin Classics version with a introduction by Michael Hulse, if anythi"
"There is no way of more surely avoiding the world than by art, and it is by art that you form the surest link with it. It is the way of the world to accept a person as he presents himself; but he does have to present himself. How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by act"