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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am…
— Norman Cousins
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I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the…
— James Prescott Joule
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest…
— Michelangelo
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For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If I dwell on what I don't want, then I will get more of it. I affirm only the good in Life.
— Louise Hay
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Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
— Rob Bell
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What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no…
— George Steiner
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I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this…
— Roland Barthes
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I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.
— Stephen Covey
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