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We know today that form is always the product of an inquisitorial process of matter – the specific reaction of matter when subjected to the terrible coercion of space choking it on all sides, pressing and squeezing it out, producing the swellings that burst form it life to the exact limits of the rigorous contours of its own originality of reaction.

— Salvador Dalí

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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

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