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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

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Eli Siegel

You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.

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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

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The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

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The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker. . . Labor is the only source of wealth.

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Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by. . . . [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

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