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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of
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"But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else."

“[…] tenemos la mala costumbre, alentada por gente pedante y rebuscada, de considerar la felicidad como algo bastante estúpido. Solo el dolor es intelectual, solo la maldad es interesante. Esa es la traición del artista: la negación a admitir la banalidad del mal y el terrible aburrimiento del dolor.”