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The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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He was a little model, was Benjamin. Doctor Franklin. Snuff-colored little man! Immortal soul and all!
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What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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The more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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Censors are dead men
set up to judge between life and death.
For no live, sunny man would be a censor,
he'd just laugh.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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Born:
September 11, 1885
Died:
March 2, 1930
(aged 44)
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