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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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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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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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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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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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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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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
Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
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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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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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