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What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.
The Outsider (1956)
The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
The Outsider (1956)
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
The Outsider (1956)
The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is an agent that ensures the happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.
The Outsider (1956)
Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
The Outsider (1956)
The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.
The Outsider (1956)
The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.
The Outsider (1956)
The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders.
The Outsider (1956)
The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
The Outsider (1956)
The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
The Outsider (1956)
The outsider, Haller says, is a self-divided man; being self-divided, his chief desire is to be unified. He is selfish as a man with a lifelong raging toothache.
The Outsider (1956)
The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.
The Outsider (1956)
Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality.
The Outsider (1956)
In refusing to face evil, Sinclair has gained nothing and lost a great deal; the Buddhist scripture expenses it: those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead.
The Outsider (1956)
Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
The Outsider (1956)
Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.
The Outsider (1956)
Considered as a whole, Hesse's achievement can hardly be matched in modern literature; it is the continually rising trajectory of an idea, the fundamentally religious idea of how to 'live more abundantly'.
The Outsider (1956)
The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
The Outsider (1956)
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
The Outsider (1956)
The Outsider cannot accept life as it is, who cannot consider his own existence or anyone else's necessary. He sees 'too deep and too much'. It is still a question of self-expression.
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