No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

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NOTHING happens by coincidence.

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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

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