“People have tended (with the help of conventions) to resolve everything in the direction of easiness, of the light, and on the lightest side of the light, but it is clear that we must hold to the heavy, the difficult.”
About This Quote
Letter to Franz Xaver Kappus (Rome, 14 May 1904).
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