Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

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ROUGHNESS AND WEAKNESS

Artists of all periods have made the discovery that in roughness lies a certain strength, and that not every one can be rough who wants to be: also that many varieties of weakness have a powerful effect on the emotions. From this source are derived many artistic substitutes, which not even the greatest and most conscientious artists can abstain from using.