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quote:i-kept-on-shouting-out-in-a-low-voice-i-did-it-i-could-not-contain-myself-it-was-an-ecstasy-even-now-ten-minutes-after-i-finished-i-am-still-tremblingI kept on shouting out in a low voice, I did it. I could not contain myself; it was an ecstasy. Even now, ten minutes after I finished, I am still trembling.
Alexander's first-person account of painting The Pink Cloud, capturing the ecstatic quality of truly pleasing oneself in the act of creation.
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- The moral revaluation: what society treats as self-indulgence is actually the path to transcendence.
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