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"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."
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"He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime."

"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."

"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
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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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