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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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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well,…
— Malin Akerman
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To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical…
— Carl Zimmer
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the…
— Joseph Black
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Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.
— Unknown Author
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open…
— Teresa of Avila
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Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived…
— Clifton Fadiman
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Is the labyrinth living or dying?
— John Green
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The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
— John Green
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To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out…
— Marcel Duchamp
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John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.…
— Unknown Author
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For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.
— Charles Perrault
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