Common sense in so far as it exists is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog, and sometimes for a man.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.
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