Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

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