Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
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I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.Gunter Grass
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
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Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
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Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
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