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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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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in,…
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have…
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is…
— Jacques Monod
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Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope…
— Charles Babbage
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…
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