[The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form. |
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped |
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. |
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it |
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. |
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. |
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. |
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price. |
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. |
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. |
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. |
Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account |
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. |
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. |
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral |