"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."

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"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

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"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

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"A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them."

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"Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."

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"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion."

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"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."

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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

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"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."