''… Ordinarily we value a work of art because of the seriousness and dignity of what it achieves. We value it because it succeeds - in being what it is and, presumably, in fulfilling the intention that lies behind it. We assume a proper, that is to say, straightforward relation between intention and performance. By such standarts we appraise The Iliad, Aristophanes’ plays, The Art of the Fugue, Middlemarch, the paintings of Rembrandt, Chartres, the poetry of Donne, The Divine Comedy, Beethoven's quartets, and - among people - Socrates, Jesus, St Francis, Napoleon, Savonarola. In short, the pantheon of high culture: truth, beauty and seriousness…''
''... There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas...''
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Yalnızlığımın beni yenmesine izin vermek, kendimi (bir şekilde ama tamamen değil) rahatlatacak her şeye kendimi şekillendirmemi sağlamak çok kolay.
Ben sonsuzum bunu asla unutmamalıyım. Hem şehvet hem de hassasiyet istiyorum. Anlarımı eksik doldurmak yerine şiddet ve aşırılık tarafında yanılmak istiyorum.
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