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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.


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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.



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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.



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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.



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