The power of abstraction is that it allows us to ignore details that are not relevant to the task at hand.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
In this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.