Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chestwithout asking to be paid.
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The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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