"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
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"Having money is a way of being free of money."
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"If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy."
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"From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself."
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"I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing."
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"Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world."
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"But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long."
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"I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up."
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"I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's."
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"Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives."
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"I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant."
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"If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation."
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"Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart."
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"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me."
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"This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
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"Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case."
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"... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive."
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"L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth."
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"Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world."
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"No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all."
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