The charm always disappears when someone is known in depth. That is why relationships do not remain pleasant unless there is distance. The one who admires must always keep in mind the fragility of admirations. Any idol can be killed with a diligent investigation, with an excess of curiosity that always results in the mental violation of idealization. Contact with fellows is only profitable when it is done in homeopathic doses.
Action Is Always Peturbative to the Spirit
Action is always perturbative to the spirit. That is why peace is the fruit of inertia, monotony, and silence—words that are absent in the vocabulary of the man of action. The need to act, then, is what makes the world take on the traces of hell. By acting, no peace is possible, and a world without action is impossible. It follows, therefore, that disturbance, torment, constitutes the inner substance of the world, and wise is he who withdraws from it. Nothing that has not been diagnosed thousands of years ago…
What Distinguishes an Artist Is the Strength and Multiplicity of His Manifestations
What distinguishes an artist is the strength and multiplicity of his manifestations. Creativity is nothing but the ability to present multiple ideas with potency. This is why every great artist, as he develops, tends to variety and excess, and gradually becomes more radical in his manifestations. In general, they end up being cut down from this earth before they are satisfied. But there are also those who retire into silence after being convinced that they have said, to the last word, what they had to say.
A Culturally Relevant Country
A country, to be culturally relevant, needs at least one symbol of national pride. Otherwise, it will drag itself through time amid an impassable cultural desert, and, even if sparsely it has some valuable cultural manifestations, these will never have a relevant and transforming role. If it does not see in the past something that unites and distinguishes it, a people is forever condemned to cultural insignificance.