"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.“

-David Herbert Lawrence

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"The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."

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"Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again."

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"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home."

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