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• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
• Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
• It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one…
• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
• All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
• ... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are…
• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

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