How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

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what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

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

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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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in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

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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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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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