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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."
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"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."

"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."

"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."
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