One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.

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Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. ― Honoré de Balzac

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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris

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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. _ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected. — Laverne Cox

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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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When dealing with toxic people always choose distance over disrespect. ― Germany Kent

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When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime. ― Malcolm X

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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

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