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Judging someone's creative work based on their personal actions is akin to judging a child for the behavior of their parent. Truly profound personal expression is not exactly of the individual on a base level - thus you have a man like Thomas Jefferson. Thus you have a man like Chogyam Trungpa - a brilliant Tibetan Buddhist scholar - who was also an alcoholic and a womanizer.
I have no problem with making the distinction between a person's compulsive, immoral, or offensive behavior and what really amounts to a gift to all of us in the form of art or philosophy.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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