"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."

Life, Men, Belief, Being

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"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."

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"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."

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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

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"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

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"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave."

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"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."

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"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."

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"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."

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"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."

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"A cult is a religion with no political power."

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"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."

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