Alvarez

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    Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
    —A. Alvarez (b. 1929)

    No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
    —A. Alvarez (b. 1929)

    Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened to them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
    —A. Alvarez (b. 1929)