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  • What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

  • In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

  • To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

  • Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.



  • Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

  • Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

  • There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

  • To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

  • One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

  • “I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face."



  • Η τέχνη είναι ο πιο σύντομος δρόμος από άνθρωπο σε άνθρωπο.

  • Ο πολιτισμός είναι αυτό που κάνει τον άνθρωπο κάτι περισσότερο από ένα ατύχημα του σύμπαντος.

  • Ένας καλλιτέχνης ανακαλύπτει την ιδιοφυΐα του τη μέρα που θα τολμήσει να μην είναι αρεστός.

  • Αν δεν μπορείς να κάνεις τέχνη, κάνε τη ζωή σου έργο τέχνης.


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