“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.”
― The Theater and Its Double
― The Theater and Its Double
“The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.”
― A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
― A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.”
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