Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.
Oliver $How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.
Oliver $Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.
Oliver $Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.
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