"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind"

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Source : "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Artist Quotes #Goal Quotes #Mind Quotes

“As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.”
“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.”
“Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.”
“Commercial rap get the gun clap, day after day.”
“In school I was pretty fast.”
“I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.”
“With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them.”
“I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn.”

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