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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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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could…
— Malin Akerman
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
— Jim Rohn
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
— Marcel Proust
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We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.
— Kenny Rogers
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Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
— Coco Chanel
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There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted
— Thomas Cranmer
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
— Auguste Rodin
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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and…
— George Grosz
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A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature,…
— Michael Pollan
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Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.
— Hugh Downs
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I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That…
— Christian Bale
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