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“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

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And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather…

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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to…

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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their…

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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,…

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I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward…

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Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

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There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…

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It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

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