Come to the edge He said. They said: 'We are afraid.' Come to the edge He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew.
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
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What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.
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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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Come to the edgeHe said. They said We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew...
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzy...
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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
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The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
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