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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues...more

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The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is what should have been tal...more

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It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could be put off for a time-- what nonsense! ...more

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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is alway...more

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After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the approach of w...more