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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.

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Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Divorce transforms habit into drama.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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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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Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.
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Art Belief Coherence Flourish Itself May Nothing Start Virtue
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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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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You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.
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in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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I’m good at reading people.
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