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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.”
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“The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“L'enfer, c'est les autres.”
― Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches
― Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches
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