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"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"I see my life in terms of music."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."
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"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."

"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
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