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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath…
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or…
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you…
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us…
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
— Jean Baudrillard
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my…
— Francesca Annis
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
— William Hazlitt
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
— Maya Angelou
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice…
— Bill Roorbach
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a…
— Rex Harrison
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