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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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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
— Josh Billings
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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
— Jean Anouilh
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils,…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Christian life consists of faith and charity
— Martin Luther
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its…
— Rajneesh
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The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of…
— Claude Bernard
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Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…
— Jean Paul
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…
— William Matthews
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I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
— Nahum Goldmann
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The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.
— Marva Dawn
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