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• The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why…
• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
• I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
• The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
• The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a…
• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for…
• All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,…
• Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
• The artist is the antenna of the race.
• The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a…
• If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself…

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