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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

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