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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
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"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
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