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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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You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
— John Milton
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So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a…
— Rex Hunt
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"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal…
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
— John Milton
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
— Iris Murdoch
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