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• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground…
• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate…
• He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the…
• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

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