Quotes by Mihai Eminescu

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Undoubtedly there are individual talents, but they must be rooted, in the soil, in the way of being of their people, to produce something permanent.

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No strong and healthy literature, capable of determining the spirit of a people, can exist unless it is itself determined in turn by the spirit of that people founded, that is, on the broad basis of the national genius.

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The arts... are pieces of the subjective life of the people - and if that art, national, characteristic, on the one hand strengthens the national consciousness and on the other it broadens its horizon, because it makes it include even more characteristic and national element, how had included until then.

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Man is the highest and noblest work of art of nature: in an even nobler sense he should also be the most beautiful work of art of art, of his own creative, free, conscious, moral power.

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In the arenas of life there are no definitive winners.