Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless And they stay in the desert Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.
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Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.Gustave Flaubert
The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
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Equality is slavery. That is why I love art.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself
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