The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly
Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms sin
Destruction evil represent
That is my proper element.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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