:53:50
That's not shame, that's fear.
:53:52
Shame's a spiritual distress
to which you are immune...
:53:54
because you are immune to feeling.
:53:56
You are a man of avoidance, of dislike,
the keeper of distances.
:54:00
You are afraid to have direct,
honest contact with anything!
:54:05
Because of your rigid standards
of morality...
:54:08
you want your behavior to be
as perfect as your music.
:54:11
Every slip is a fall, a catastrophe,
resulting in irreparable contamination.
:54:15
- I am contaminated...
- lf only you were!
:54:17
To be in debt to one's own senses...
:54:19
for a condition
which is irredeemably corrupt and sick.
:54:23
What joy for an artist!
:54:30
Think what a dry
and arid thing good health is.
:54:34
Especially if it's of the soul
no less than the body.
:54:38
I have to find my balance somehow.
:54:41
How unfortunate that art is so indifferent
to personal morality...
:54:45
otherwise you would be supreme,
unreachable, inimitable.
:54:53
Tell me, do you know what lies
at the bottom of the mainstream?
:54:59
Mediocrity.