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"it is impossible to be an artist and not care for laws and limits. Art is limitation ; the essence of every picture is the frame." - Orthodoxy. Lane 1941, chapter III: The Suicide of Thought, p. 69 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=AZYLAAAAIAAJ&dq=frame
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Aphorismen und Paradoxa
"it must be confessed that many detective stories are as full of sensational crime as one of Shakespeare's plays." - Defense of Detective Stories, in: The Defendant. Third edition. Dent & Co. London 1907, p. 119 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=LM5MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA119
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„Das Glück ist ein Mysterium wie die Religion und duldet kein Rationalisieren.“
Häretiker
"Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized." - Omar and the Sacred Vine. In: Heretics, 1909.
Häretiker
„Der beste Beweis einer physischen Kraft ist der Hang nach hohen kühnen Idealen.“
Häretiker
"There can be no stronger sign of a coarse material health than the tendency to run after high and wild ideals " - Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy. In: Heretics, 1909.
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Häretiker "The only genuinely dangerous and immoral way of drinking wine is to drink it as a medicine." - Omar and the Sacred Vine. In: Heretics, 1909.
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Häretiker
"Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected - that is, most romantic. Advetures are to the shy: in this sense adventures are to the unadventurous." - Mr. H.G. Wells and the Giants. In: Heretics, 1909.
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„Ein Briefkasten heißt nur so; in Wahrheit ist er das Sanktuarium menschlichen Gedankenaustausches.“
Häretiker
"A pillar-box is only called a pillar-box; it is a sanctuary of human words." - On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small. In: Heretics, 1909.
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Collected Works, Band 28, 1910
"The good artist is he who can be understood; it is the bad artist who is always „misunderstood“." - Questions of Divorce, p.55 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=04gvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55&dq=misunderstood, in: The Uses of Diversity
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Wie denken Sie darüber?, Schünemann, Bremen 1932, S. 181/182
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"If Rudyard Kipling, for instance, had written his short stories in France, [...] Kipling's short stories would have been appreciated like Maupassant's short stories. In England they were not appreciated but believed. They were taken seriously by a startled nation as a true picture of the empire and the universe." - George Bernard Shaw, by Gilbert K. Chesterton. New York John Lane 1910. Ch. 2: The Irishman. http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/Shaw.html#irishman
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Letzte Worte, 14. Juni 1936
Original engl.: "The issue now is clear: it is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side."
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