“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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