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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that…
— Corey Taylor
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills…
— Samuel Johnson
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Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.
— Michelle Obama
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I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end…
— Saint Patrick
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Follow what you love!... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not…
— Georgie Anne Geyer
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Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
— Roland Barthes
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My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic -…
— Jared Harris
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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
— Horace
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A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.
— Frederic Morton
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I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
— Arnold Palmer
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom.…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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