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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets’ nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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In the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it’s funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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