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Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.

— Christian Morgenstern aphorism (1907)

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Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

The Hidden Souls of Words (2004)

All Servants
Across the heavens that surround this sphere, I write:
It is not the tyrant who is a shameful man,
but the servant of the tyrant.

For, he reasons pointedly
That which must not, can not be.

None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one’s spirit.

Zarathustra’s Children (2000)

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