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“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”
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“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
― Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
“Hey, Bubu, a bottle of good French wine...Sip it slowly, do you most good. You'll sleep. Be happy. And if you want to come downstairs, dance and sing, talk, ok. Do what you want. Here's the wine.”
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“Now fix the drink and then tell me what happened.”
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“And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.”
― Antwerp
― Antwerp
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