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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Art

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

Courage Inspiration Love

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

Best

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Humor

Repression for the attainment of economic ends is a necessary weapon of the socialist dictatorship.

Dictatorship of the proletariat

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Life

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Courage

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Good

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Love

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Change

Now twilight lets her curtain down
And pins it with a star.

Stars

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Sex

Truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered.

Truth

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

War

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Strength

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Society

Capitalism is war socialism is peace.

Peace

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Mistakes

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Humor