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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
— Baltasar Gracian
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
— Teresa of Avila
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Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
— Baltasar Gracian
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what…
— Edgar Cayce
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I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against…
— Hal Porter
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
— Fawn M. Brodie
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...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity…
— Sam Abell
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To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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