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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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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
— Joseph Addison
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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
— George Herbert
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here…
— Rajneesh
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The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society,…
— Rajneesh
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A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
— Carlos Castaneda
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I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the…
— J. G. Ballard
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I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows…
— Isadora Duncan
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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,…
— Rajneesh
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I build molecules for a living. I can't begin to tell you how difficult that job is. I stand in awe of…
— Unknown Author
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
— Paracelsus
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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