Bir edebi eser tek oturuşta okunamayacak kadar uzunsa, izlenim birliğinin (unity of impression) sağlayacağı muazzam önemli etkiden vazgeçmeye razı olmamız gerekir; çünkü eğer iki oturuşta okumak gerekiyorsa dünya işleri araya karışır ve bütünlük (totality) gibi şeyler derhal bozulur.
Sayfa 66Kitabı okudu
The complete truth can only lie in the reconciliation of the individual with the unity. I have achieved this reconciliation in my work and indeed, according to my firm conviction, for all times.
Now we have the right to give this being the well-known name that always designates what no power of imagination, no flight of the boldest fantasy, no intently devout heart, no abstract thinking however profound, no enraptured and transported spirit has ever attained: God. But this basic unity is of the past; it no longer is. It has, by changing its being, totally and completely shattered itself. God has died and his death was the life of the world.
By means of micro- and macrocosmization man humanized the heavens and spiritualized the earth and so melted sky and earth together in an inextricable unity.By opposing culture to nature in these ways, man allotted to himself a special spiritual destiny, one that enabled him to transcend his animal condition and assume a special status in nature. No longer was he an animal who died and vanished from the earth; he was a creator of life who could also give eternal life to himself by means of communal rituals of cosmic regeneration.
