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It was the straying that found the path direct.

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Austin Osman Spare
Age: 69 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 30
Died: 1956
Died: May 15
Artist
Painter
Writer
London
England
Austin Osman
Straying
Direct
Path
Found

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Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.
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The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.
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Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.
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For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.
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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
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