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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

— Nadine Gordimer Burger's Daughter (1979)

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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

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