Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. Maxim for Revolutionists
Reputation is a great inheritance. Day's Collacon
„When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.“ Narcissus and Goldmund
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light. Mrs. Dalloway
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