Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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