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It pre-exists our presumption as artists.
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Your great error, my dear friend,
is to consider life...
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reality as a limitation.
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But isn't that what it is?
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Reality only distracts and degrades us.
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You know, sometimes I think...
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that artists are rather like hunters
aiming in the dark.
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They don't know what their target is,
and they don't know if they've hit it.
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But you can't expect life to illuminate
the target and steady your aim.
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The creation of beauty and purity
is a spiritual act.
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No, Gustav. No!
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Beauty belongs to the senses.
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Only to the senses!
:35:38
You cannot reach the spirit...
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You cannot reach the spirit
through the senses. You cannot.
:35:47
It's only by complete domination
of the senses...
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that you can ever achieve...
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wisdom, truth and human dignity.
:35:59
Wisdom? Human dignity?