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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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There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are,…
— Jo Brand
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From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Anger is a brief lunacy.
— Horace
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Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and…
— Bill Maher
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of…
— David Brooks
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If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would…
— Nicholas Stern
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy…
— Adolf Hitler
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I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.
— Bethenny Frankel
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I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have…
— Paul Farmer
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Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational…
— Timothy Radcliffe
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