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Damien Hirst

"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

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"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

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"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

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Amber Hurdle

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

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"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

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"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

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Amber Hurdle

"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

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Amber Hurdle

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

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Amber Hurdle

"To awake from death is to die in peace."

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Amber Hurdle

"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death."

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"The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal."
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"There's no possible way you can get what you want."
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"A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done."
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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
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"It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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