I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Marilyn Manson
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  2. Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

  3. But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize...

  4. I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

  5. The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

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