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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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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
— Umberto Eco
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…
— H.G. Wells
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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…
— Karl Popper
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…
— Mortimer Collins
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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as…
— Bertrand Russell
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