“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.