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They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.


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Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.



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The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.





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