“Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.”

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

Source: Interview at Recanto das Letras http://recantodasletras.com.br/entrevistas/625556, 2007.

Entry in Tolstoy&#x27;s Diary http://www.linguadex.com/tolstoy/chapter1.htm (1 November 1910) <br class="br">Context: God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him.<br>Or better yet:<br>God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.<br>God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter. The more God&#x27;s manifestation in man (life) unites with the manifestations (lives) of other beings, the more man exists. This union with the lives of other beings is accomplished through love.<br>God is not love, but the more there is of love, the more man manifests God, and the more he truly exists...<br>We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us. All conclusions and guidelines based on this consciousness should fully satisfy both our desire to know God as such as well as our desire to live a life based on this recognition.

Source: As a Man Thinketh

1840 <br class="br"> From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry, http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/mdenner/Demo/texts/thoughts_more_thoughts.html Northwestern University (2001)

Choruses from The Rock (1934)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 88

1895 - 1905
Source: Lettres à un Inconnu, (Notebook II, p. 8) - Aux sources de l'expressionnisme. Presentation par Gabrielle Dufour-Kowalska. Klincksieck, 1999. p. 106