“We have assembled inside this ancient
& insane theatre
To propagate our lust for life
& flee the swarming wisdom
of the streets”
An American Prayer (1978)
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lead singer of The Doors 1943–1971Related quotes
“We don't get Top Rope Theatre at the Palace of Wisdom”
The Palace Of Wisdom
“To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.”
Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Lövborg, Act II
Hedda Gabler (1890)
“The ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Mr. Tambourine Man
"On the Sufferings of the World"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
Context: In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
written text with brush, in her last painting JHM no. 4925 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlotte_Salomon_-_JHM_4925.jpg: (558) 'Life? or Theater..', p. 824
Charlotte Salomon - Life? or Theater?