"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."

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“I am not for women but against men.”

“Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.”

“The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.”

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