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“Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.”
“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
“Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?”
“Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.”
“'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”
“The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.”
“Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.”
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
“The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.”
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
“In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.”
“The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.”
“Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.”
“The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
“The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.”
“One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.”
“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”