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“One artist said: when younger I was a planet with its own dense atmosphere. The descending rays of light broke into rainbows. Constant thunderstorms raged inside... Now I am extinct and dry and opened. I lack a certain childlike energy. I have a hot and cold side. But no rainbows.”

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