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"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
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"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."

"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."

"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."

"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
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