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"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
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"When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols."
"Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl."
"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."
"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
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