"People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write."
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"Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive."
"The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority."
"In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives."
"In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn."
"If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours."