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" The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. "

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" An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. "

" A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. "

" We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. "

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" The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. "

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" Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. "