“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.