“…the comforts of life increase every day… and yet the truth is still far off, and man still remains the most predatory…of animals, and the tendency in the majority of mankind is towards degeneration and the permanent loss of vitality.  In such conditions an artist’s life has no meaning, and the more talented he is, More

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