The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. Essays
A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. De Profundis
Variant translation: Your question, Mr. Examining Magistrate, as to whether I am a house-painter — although you did not ask a question at all, you made a statement — typifies exactly the kind of proceedings that are being instituted against me. The Trial
“Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has neither.” Uncle Vanya
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