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  • Avant tout, les artistes sont des hommes qui veulent devenir inhumains. Aboveall, artists aremenwhowanttobecome inhuman.

    -Kostrowitzki
      Les Peintres cubistes; Me  ditations esthe  tiques,'Sur la peinture,1'.

  • I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper authorities.But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is to me inhuman and indecent and dishonorable.

    - Lillian Florence Hellman
      Letter to  John S  Wood,19 May, on being asked to give information for the McCarthy trials. Collected in US Congress Committee Hearing on Un- American  Activities (1952), pt.8.

  • My theme is always humanistic. Life today is junglelike†it is complex, it is inhuman in its materialism.

    - SirAngus FrankJohnstone Wilson
      Letter to David Farrer, his publisher, Jul. Quoted in Margaret Drabble AngusWilsonA Biography (1995).

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