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I like it, murder, because this is courage. It is anti-bourgeois. Murder is closer to heaven, because after becoming remords de conscience, one prays, one opens the sky, and the angels say, “Good morning!”
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Exposure (October 1990); from an interview originally conducted by Victor Bockris in 1974.

 

Salvador Dali

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