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"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."


"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."


"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."


"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."


"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."


"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
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