Ludwig Wittgenstein/1947%e2%80%931951 - Final Years

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    Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    It had been a wonderful evening. And what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig Van.
    Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    A confession has to be part of your new life.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    Time isn’t so important.... We can say that time is behind us, that we’ve had years together.... I can tell you about a thousand wonderful hours we’ve spent together because I feel we would have, inevitably. And there’s not that much difference between the future and the past.
    Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)