THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

to see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel

July 18, 2013

I Found These in a Draft That Was Never Published

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"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless."

— Victor Hugo's preface to Les Miserables

This is how I respond when I'm asked why I'm studying art. Because art has the power to help people.

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