Quote #34

Perhaps the artist is nothing more than the personification of this universal maladjustment, this universal disequilibrium.

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  1. The Battle is endless...we who babble and froth at the mouth have been at it since eternity.
  2. Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my co…
  3. The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have …
  4. The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.
  5. Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
  6. I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.
  7. The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.
  8. I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.

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