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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 26th, 1891

Died: June 7th, 1980

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