"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively."

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"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively."

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"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."

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