A witty inspiration is a dissolution of spiritual substances which consequently, before the sudden separation, must have been most... intimately intermingled. Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions,... stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the end of life but the final saturation with absence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »