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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

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The first technology was good and I enjoyed the the book as a whole but the second tetralogy gradually seem to to ramble with sexual visuals but we're not very sane because as it got into the second book of that cat trilogy I suddenly realised that he wasn't really making much sense and I suddenly found myself being rather disappointed because the last thing I wanted to do was to find out that he was not mentally fit and although I'm not a psychologist professionally I've studied enough psychology to be able to tell when somebody is mentally unfit and I'm probably mentally unfit myself to some degree but not to that degree and impact has become a a celibate through an obsession of hygiene. I hope I'm wrong but I think I might well be right about him and I would like to know if there's any evidence that would gainsay what I have just said and will be left forever answer why he seemed to end up babbling rather than writing in that last book which incidentally I'm afraid I threw out because I didn't really like the back but I felt this feeling! But I knew I could never read it again!

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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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