L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu. <br class="br">III: "Le Confiteor de l'artiste" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_III._Le_Confiteor_de_l%27artiste <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862) <br class="br">Source: Twenty Prose Poems
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Man sagt: „Studire, Künstler, die Natur!”
Es ist aber keine Kleinigkeit, aus dem Gemeinen das Edle, aus der Unform das Schöne zu entwickeln.
Maxim 191, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
Donna Tartt book The Secret History
Variant: It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
Source: The Secret History
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
Source: Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
“In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University (December 2005)
Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)
“A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic… or more utterly moronic?”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: The Duke and I
“Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.”
Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor
2016 <br class="br">Source: Twitter, February 9, 2016 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/697077569250787328
“Terrorism sees, in the prosperity of the Afghan people, its ultimate defeat.”
Hamid Karzai (1957) President of Afghanistan
Address to Canadian Parliament https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Karzai%27s_address_to_Canadian_Parliament (September 22, 2006) <br class="br">2006
Hamid Karzai (1957) President of Afghanistan
Commencement Address to Boston University Class of 2005 http://www.bu.edu/news/2005/05/22/transcript-of-president-hamid-karzais-commencement-address/ (May 22, 2005) <br class="br">2005
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Attributed to Rodin in H. Read (1964), as cited in: Karl H. Pfenninger, Valerie R. Shubik, Bruce Adolphe (2001). The Origins of Creativity. p. 50
1950s-1990s
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
