"Nothing’s different, but everything has changed."

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“I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?”

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“I love this world … That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was in when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.”

“If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.”

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"Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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"We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed."

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