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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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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…
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Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride…
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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself…
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Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we…
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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,…
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We don't need to fear the enemy who attacks us, but the fake friends that are with us only in our good…
— Anurag Prakash Ray
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