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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. – Thomas Mann

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. – David Herbert Lawrence

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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. – Georg Cantor

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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. – Yoko Ono

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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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