I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form. Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.
Some people commit a crime for no other reason.
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