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• Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
• The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
• In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
• If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
• The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
• Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
• There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

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