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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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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
— Umberto Eco
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The actress I had the most fun working with was Alex Kingston. It was a fun relationship to play because it was…
— Paul McCrane
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Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes…
— Vincent de Paul
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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates…
— Honore de Balzac
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and…
— Randall Kennedy
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you…
— Dalai Lama
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I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her…
— Robin Morgan
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Even without words....Priceless is the hand of genuine affection. ~Jordan Blake Michiels~
— Jordan Blake Michiels
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