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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.