There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

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God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

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