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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless…
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the…
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced…
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking…
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors,…
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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result…
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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
— Luigi Pirandello
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I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove…
— Susanna Moore
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
— Guy de Maupassant
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Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes…
— Simon Sinek
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Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.
— Sheila Bender
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
— Eric Bentley
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Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites.…
— Martin Amis
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Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.
— Donald Woods Winnicott
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Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are…
— William S. Burroughs
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