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Life is to blame for everything.

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It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

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Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

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It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

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Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

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What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

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Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

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The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

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Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Writer

Born: November 6th, 1880

Died: April 15th, 1942

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