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The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.
I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public.
I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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A. P. Herbert
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24 September, 1890
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11 November, 1971
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