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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.”

“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.” — J.D. Salinger

“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.” –Vladimir Nabokov

“Thus we find him on the threshold of his career: an aesthete and an individualist. He wanted not only to live apart from the crowd, to be true to himself – but also to be liked. He sought to be … Continue reading →