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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly…

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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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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One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. — Jesse H. Jones
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all… — Oliver Goldsmith
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one… — Oliver Goldsmith
When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue… — Etty Hillesum
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers… — Martial
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a… — Mortimer Adler
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People… — Roland Barthes
If you'd lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him Money. — Benjamin Franklin
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him,… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He who wants to make his friend his enemy should lend him some money. — Vikrant Parsai
The best way to understand oneself and / lend him some money, let her character will come to you — Mak_786

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