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When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.
Alberto Giacometti
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Alberto Giacometti
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: October 10
Died: 1966
Died: January 11
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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
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What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
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