No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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