"To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself."
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"I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries."
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"I've clearer idea of how I don't want to be seen - as someone who does what everyone wants them to."
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"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
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"The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does."
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"Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful."
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"What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee."
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"A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working."
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"The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world."
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"Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis."
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost."
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"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
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"Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos."
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"A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."
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"Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter."
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"Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy."
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"I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."
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"For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered."
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"The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world."
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"Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it."
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