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“Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.”
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“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
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“We have been educated to such a fine / or dull / point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.”
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“Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?”
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“Instead of asking -- ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask -- ''How much good? How much joy?''”
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“An artist is always alone / if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
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“In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.”
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“The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.”
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“Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
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“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”
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“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
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