“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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