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If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'

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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

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I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the su...more

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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

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... Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream of? One consoles oneself for being insulted and...more

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Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have this p...more

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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

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Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

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Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in ...more