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The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.


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The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.



It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.



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The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.



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Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.



The truth is always multiplex.

The truth is always multiplex.



Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.



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Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.



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The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.



Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.



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