Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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- When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- The doer alone learneth.
- The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
- We have art in order not to die of the truth.