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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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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor…
— Joseph Addison
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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
— David Byrne
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In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of…
— Milarepa
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft…
— Winfield Scott
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When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
— Antisthenes
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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which…
— Edith Hamilton
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
— Margaret of Valois
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us…
— Unknown Author
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We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and…
— Ryan Holiday
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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
— Epictetus
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