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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

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