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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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Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a…
— Rumi
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If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse
— Bob Arum
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Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one…
— Unknown Author
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The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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I think that’s whats wrong with the world. No one says what they feel, they always hold it inside. They’re sad, but…
— Louise Fitzhugh
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made…
— Joyce Cary
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around,…
— Don DeLillo
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What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy…
— Neal Shusterman
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I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should…
— Umberto Eco
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