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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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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and…
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My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law…
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I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say,…
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I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the…
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Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we…
— Dorothee Solle
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Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape.…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
— Aristotle
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
— Joseph Joubert
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This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,…
— George Crabbe
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Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
— Claude Bernard
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Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me!…
— Marion D. Hanks
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