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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion

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