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• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or…
• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
• But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
• Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
• Every artist is an unhappy lover.
• Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
• Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
• Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion…
• Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
• It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one…

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