Random Quotes
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
Existence precedes and rules essence.Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943)
Hell is other people.Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961)