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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.
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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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