To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy.
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Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
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