“But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..” While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give. Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves. I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police. A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. Your battles inspired me-not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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