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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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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a…
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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
— Confucius
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Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical…
— Carl Zimmer
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I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must…
— Margaret Atwood
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what…
— Alain Badiou
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A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes…
— Lucille Kallen
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Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
— Khalil Gibran
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Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal…
— Umberto Eco
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It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
— Richard Eberhart
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We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton…
— Rick Wright
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