"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

-- Norman Mailer

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“By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit.”
“If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.”
“People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!”

Source : Letter from Horace Walpole to the Earl of Harcourt, 17 September 1778, in W. S. Lewis et al. (eds.) 'Horace Walpole's Correspondence' vol. 35 (1973) p. 489
“Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them”
“In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?”
“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.”
“In everything, there is a share of everything”

Source : Anaxagoras, Patricia Curd (2007). “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays”, p.54, University of Toronto Press
“I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.”

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