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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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The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very…
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Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries,…
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We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.
— Fernando Meirelles
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others…
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Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important…
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It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of…
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You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.
— Terri Irwin
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that…
— Audre Lorde
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The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.
— Milan Kundera
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