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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back."

"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."

"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."

"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."
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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."
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